toment

A small good this might appear to me, did I not to my grief know numberless persons, who through some horrible and wide-spreading contagion of sin, not only disclose to persons mutually angered things said in anger, but add withal things never spoken, whereas to humane humanity, it ought to seem a light thing not to toment or increase ill will by ill words, unless one study withal by good words to quench it.

The Confessions 1999

Then Time tarns toment, when man turns a foot tVerave, we wiefUe with great Nature's plM;.

The Beauties of English Poesy 1767

As it happens, it’s true that “mentor” comes not from a verb “toment,”...

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