Meaning of highwrought | Babel Free

Definitions

Highly excited; overwrought; worked up.

archaic, not-comparable

Examples

“The downy cloth of our meeting mounts was now of real use to break the violence of the tilt; and soon, too soon indeed! the highwrought agitation, the sweet urgency of this to-and-fro friction, raised the titillation on me to its height”

Fanny Hill

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