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
He stood on the bridge overwhelmed by the despair whose Tartarean blackness only twenty can experience.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
I must see the grown-up Pliny's noble brow and my Calpurnia's eyes—and the Tartarean frown of Tacitus, who, I hear, is with you.
From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
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 William Stewart Rose
That holy one! who not his blood would spare, But did the dark Tartarean bolts unbrace; He, too, doth from my soul death's terrors chase: Then welcome, death! thy impress I would wear.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
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