painmaking

English

Adjective

painmaking (comparative more painmaking, superlative most painmaking)

1. Alternative form of pain-making
   • 1898, Herbert George Wells, The Stolen Body:

     Moreover, the evil spirit was angry because his time had been so short and because of the painmaking violent movements and casting his body about.

   • 1985, The Washington Monthly - Volumes 17-18, page 12:

     New techniques, such as painmaking drugs; pseudo-legal dodges, such as incommunicado detention and "disappearances"; ancient scenarios, such as children forced to watch the :orture of their mothers — these practices have spread rapidly around the world.

   • 2002, Gavin Evans, Dancing Shoes is Dead: A Tale of Fighting Men in South Africa:

     Inside the prison, the chosen few readied themselves to leave their place of incarceration for three precious, painstaking, painmaking hours on the town.

Noun

painmaking (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of pain-making
   • 1987, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service:

     Painmaking has replaced lawmaking.

   • 2000, Yang-Un Moon, Multi-Mega-Trans-Metamorphosis: Iii Arrival, →ISBN, page 22:

     Spawned healthy seeds, seizure, sporadical spasm of numbing habit of painmaking, face the real pain, scorching painful pang.

   • 2007, S. R. Osborn, Song of Earth, →ISBN, page 77:

     Torch the land, insert a queer talent for painmaking, mental anguishizing.