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
Hence is a road that led them a-down to the Tartarean streams, Where Acheron's whirlpool impetuous, into the reeky Deep of Cokytos disgorgeth, with muddy burden.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
We stand before it like Sisyphus before the great rock which he rolled so laboriously and so vainly up that Tartarean hill.
From A Comparative Study of the Negro Problem The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 4 by Cook, Charles C.
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
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
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