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
He now must wander in self-torment, seeking and finding not.”
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
The poor fellow was in agonies of self-torment at the thought.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
She sinned grandly, but the height of her sin made deeper the depths of her soul abasement and her self-torment was too horrible to clothe itself in the tawdry draperies of diplomacy.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
The capacity for self-torment was no longer his.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford
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