Meaning of tormentful | Babel Free

Definitions

Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.

Examples

“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”

“Three like the dawnings of new-born day, they ravished every heart; Yea, tormentful to the yearner’s soul were they, these maidens three.”

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