Meaning of torvid | Babel Free

Definitions

Fierce, stern.

obsolete, poetic

Examples

“[…] but yesterday his breath / Aw’d Rome, and his least torved frown was death.”

“That wary labourers, in passing by, / May not suspect his master's idle life, / Lest, urg’d by smiling truth or torvid jealousy, / They carry information to the little Nimrod of the borough town”

“With torvid brow Saturnia gazed upon / Ixion, and the toiling Sisyphon, / And asked why he alone selected was / To bear such punishment […]”

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