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Webster 1913 Edition


Tormentress

Tor-ment′ress

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Noun.
A woman who torments.
Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and
tormentress
of glory and honor.
Holland.

Definition 2024


tormentress

tormentress

English

Noun

tormentress (plural tormentresses)

  1. A female tormentor.
    • Holland
      Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honour.
    • 1996, Gordon Williams, Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution
      But if the victim Lavinia offers a prime example, her tormentress Tamora provides a no less striking model of another kind.
    • 1836. The Meerut Universal Magazine. Volume 2. Pg. 390.
      "Tell me," I repeated, but, alas ! miserably out of tune. My confusion rapidly increased, when the fair tormentress, turning towards me, said, perhaps it is my fault — I am not playing correctly?"

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