excruciation

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  1. The act of excruciating or inflicting extreme pain, or the state of being excruciated; torture. The frettings, the thwartings, and the excruciations of life. Feltham, Resolves, ii. 57.

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  • Macedonians defended successfully their Greekness against Ottoman occupation and Slavic excruciation since the middle of 19th c. —  SofiaEcho RSS feed
  • However the punishment of the Day of Judgment by God will be so sever so that they wish that they remained dust and never created to see such excruciation in the Hellfire. —  Hammorabi
  • Chinese water torture-are psychological rather than physical, causing excruciation of the mind rather than the body. —  CJR
  • Oh the excruciation of a sense of entitlement betrayed. —  WN.com - Articles related to Peanut Products Rebound after Health Scare
  • Of her originally sprang the inspired teaching of the doom of men to excruciation in endlessness. —  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
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  1. = Old French excruciation, from Late Latin excruciatio(n-), from Latin excruciare, torture: see excruciate.
 

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