Tartarean
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Tartarean
1615–25; < Latin Tartare ( us ) of Tartarus ( see -eous) + -an
Example Sentences
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James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork.
From Time Magazine Archive
O loathed, O cursed piece of enginery, Cast in Tartarean bottom, by the hand Of Beelzebub, whose foul malignity The ruin of this world through thee has planned!
From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart
A short distance further, we saw across the plain the ruins of the bath of Agrippa, built by the side of the Tartarean Lake.
From Views a-foot by Taylor, Bayard
We stand before it like Sisyphus before the great rock which he rolled so laboriously and so vainly up that Tartarean hill.
From A Comparative Study of the Negro Problem The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 4 by Cook, Charles C.
A rosy vapor, as from some Tartarean breathing, hovered about the mouths of the furnaces.
From The Web of Life by Herrick, Robert
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