tormentress
/tɔɹˈmɛn.tɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentresse of glory and honour."
- "But if the victim Lavinia offers a prime example, her tormentress Tamora provides a no less striking model of another kind."
- ""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?""
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: turmenteresse