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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Stern; grim. See

[Obs.]

But yesterday his breath
Awed Rome, and his least

torved

frown was death.

J. Webster (1654).

torved ‎(comparative more torved, superlative most torved)

(obsolete) stern; grim
But yesterday his breath / Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. — J. Webster (1654).