self-torment
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of self-torment
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time?
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
But his self-torment did not let him rest anywhere.
From Dame Care by Overbeck, Bertha
Separated from those dearest to me, the whole of the journey, for that matter, was a sort of self-torment to me, even though a profitable one.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
He seemed to them to be in a growing state of self-torment, and in this they were not mistaken.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
Thus, in the first place, he will be secure from inward reproaches and contests, from vacillation and self-torment.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
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