self-ˈtorment
[self- 1 a.]
Tormenting of oneself. So self-torˈmented ppl. a.; self-torˈmenting vbl. n. and ppl. a.; self-torˈmentor (occas. used to render the title of Terence's play, Heautontimorumenos).
| 1671 J. Flavel Fount. Life iv. Wks. 1701 I. 32/2 The Self-revenges, the *Self-torments, which the Damned suffer for this their Folly. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xxxix, The stupid self-torments of an ascetic. |
| 1713 Rowe Jane Shore v. i, So wakes my Soul, Restless and *self-tormented. |
| a 1711 Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. I. 115 Though all her *self-tormentings are in vain, She no Alleviation can obtain. 1841 Helps Ess., Aids Contentm. (1842) 8 To suggest some antidotes against the manifold ingenuity of self-tormenting. |
| 1648 Crashaw Steps to Temple, Sospetto d'Herode lii, Tyranny And *selfe-tormenting sin. 1712 Blackmore Creation iii. 687 Tim'rous Minds with self-tormenting Care Create those awful Phantoms. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. xiv, The many wills made by my unhappy self-tormenting father. |
| 1667 J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 41 Mourners in Sion, you may, and ought to be; but *self-tormentors you must not be. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 521 ¶6 The Play of the Self-Tormentor of Terence's. 1825 Southey Tale of Paraguay iv. xv, Poor, erring, self-tormentor that thou art, O Man! |