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tormentful en · ADJ

Etymology

From torment + -ful.

Meanings

1. Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.
   • Three like the dawnings of new-born day, they ravished every heart; Yea, tormentful to the yearner’s soul were they, these maidens three. 1901, John Payne, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, El Asmaï and the Three Girls of Bassora:
   • Malice, and envy, and revenge , are unquiet pasions; and in what nature soever they are, they are as vexatious and tormentful to itself, as they are troublesome and mischievous to others a. 1694, John Tillotson, On the Happiness of good men (sermon)

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