seeksorrow
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editseeksorrow (plural seeksorrows)
- A person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor.
- 2010, Phil Cousineau, Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words[2], Cleis Press, →ISBN, page xvii:
- When my parents drove us up to Stratford, Ontario, to see a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the word seeksorrow leapt out at me from the stage, and I've loved it ever since.