anguish
noun
excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Because thou wast the cause of thy mother’s death; for when thou didst ride forth against her will, anguish seized upon her heart, so that she died; and therefore art thou accursed.
From The Mabinogion Vol. 1 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards