tormentful

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Malice, and envy, and revenge , are unquiet pasions; and in what nature soever they are, they are as vexatious and tormentful to itself, as they are troublesome and mischievous to others"
"Three like the dawnings of new-born day, they ravished every heart; Yea, tormentful to the yearner’s soul were they, these maidens three."

From torment + -ful.

more tormentful (comparative) most tormentful (superlative)

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