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▪ I. torˈmenting, vbl. n.
[f. torment v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb torment; torturing, vexing; an instance of this.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 12/389 His soule wende to þe Joye of heouene After is tormentingue. 1382Wyclif Isa. xiii. 8 Tormentingus and sorewes thei shul holde. 1535Coverdale Wisd. ii. 19 Let vs examen him with despitefull rebuke and tormentinge, that we maye knowe his dignite & proue his pacience. 1633P. Fletcher Elisa ii. iv, So sat she, as when speechlesse griefs tormenting Locks up the heart. 1884Athenæum 6 Dec. 732/2 [They] suffer from no fancied ills and self-conscious tormentings.
▪ II. torˈmenting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That torments, in various senses of the verb.
1575[implied in tormentingly]. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 226 While some tormenting Dreame Affrights thee. 1637Prynne Passages Star Chamb. in Harl. Misc. (1809) IV. 234 Let me be put to the tormentingest death they can devise. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 505 Sight hateful, sight tormenting! 1780Mirror No. 74 ⁋9 Haunted with the most tormenting thoughts. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. viii. 87 The eruption, a tormenting and anomalous symptom.
Hence torˈmentingly adv.; torˈmentingness.
1575Gascoigne Dan Barthol. of Bathe Wks. 1907 I. 105 He bounst and bet his head tormentingly. 1727Bailey vol. II, Tormentingness, tormenting Quality or Faculty. 1857Chamb. Jrnl. VII. 397 Visits were tormentingly delayed. |