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self-torment
[ self-tawr-ment, self- ]
noun
- an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
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Other Words From
- self-tor·mented adjective
- self-tor·menting adjective
- self-tor·menting·ly adverb
- self-tor·mentor noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of self-torment1
First recorded in 1640–50
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Example Sentences
She would only have had a needless fright, to see her mother, haggard with self-torment, by her bedside at that hour.
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To encourage such fantasy was the idlest self-torment, but he had gone too far in this form of indulgence.
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With a saint's capacity for self-torment, Madeleine wielded the scourge over her own back until the blood came.
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Then there came over him a spirit of defiance, of self-torment, of ill-humour, and he felt tempted to throw up the whole thing.
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Charity listened with a greed of self-torment like a fanatic penitent.
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