torturingly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]torturingly (comparative more torturingly, superlative most torturingly)
- So as to torture.
- 2015, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life:
- The ground soon becomes torturingly hard, and she is bitten all over by insects. The worst thing is the cold. It creeps in upon her, and she cringes into a ball to escape from it.
- c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:
- An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly , More rudely , or more most unnaturally!
- Extremely; painfully
References
[edit]- “torturingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.