self-torment
noun
an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
self-tormented
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a word derived from
self-torment.
Example Sentences
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As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, it is in no sense a case of the self-tormented wretch driven mad by the awful hallucinations of his guilty, unhinged mind.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
For reason banishes all other griefs, but itself creates regret when the soul is vexed with shame and self-tormented.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
Such vigils must I keep, so wakes my soul, Restless and self-tormented!
From Jane Shore A Tragedy by Nicholas Rowe
