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
Tartarean regions have no worse woes, nor the Hell of Christians, than memory inflicts upon those who have done evil.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William
The Tartarean gloom was slightly relieved by torches ingeniously formed of strings of the candle-nut.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
The Mucone has always been known as a ferocious and pitiless torrent, and maintains to this day its Tartarean reputation.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
Then too, shall Haemus cloven to his base Be shattered, and the huge Ceraunian hills,2 Once weapons of Tartarean Dis, immersed In Erebus, shall fill Himself with fear.
From Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by Cowper, William
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