tormentous
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tormentous (comparative more tormentous, superlative most tormentous)
- (rare, dated) Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.[1]
- 1756, Philip Francis (translator), Horace (author), "Ode 35: To Fortune" in A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, p. 129 (Google preview):
- Before thee stalks inexorable Fate,
- And grasps impailing nails and wedges dread,
- The hook tormentous and the melted lead.
- 1870, The Annual Register, Volume 111, page 264:
- [I]ts greed gave us years tormentous and horrible, like those of Ferdinand VII.
- 1960 May, "Loneliest Boy on Capitol Hill", Ebony, vol. 15, no. 7, p. 58 (Google preview):
- Few adults could have survived the tormentous, agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.
- 1756, Philip Francis (translator), Horace (author), "Ode 35: To Fortune" in A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, p. 129 (Google preview):
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- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2005.