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▪ I. ˈtorturing, vbl. n.
[f. torture v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb torture; infliction of torture; tormenting; fig. wresting, perversion.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xii. lxv, He soon was led Unto a thousand thousand torturings. 1638Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 170 Ruines of noble houses,..confiscation of estates, torturing of bodies. 1753W. Stewart in Scots Mag. Mar. 135/2 What strange..torturing of..upright actions must there be, to make this criminal? 1765Blackstone Comm. (1830) I. i. 133 Prohibition not only of killing and maiming, but also of torturing (to which our laws are strangers). 1855Maurice Patriarchs & Lawg. xii. (1882) 223 These are not inferences drawn from the story by an unnatural torturing.
b. attrib. ˈtorturing-stock (nonce-wd.), one upon whom torture is inflicted.
1622Bp. Hall Serm. bef. Jas. I 15 Sept., Wks. (1624) 493 Yet..were these poor torturing-stocks higher..than their persecutors.
▪ II. ˈtorturing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That tortures; inflicting or causing torture; tormenting, excruciating.
1611Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems ii. 46 He [Cupid]..fled away..; But, (woes me,) left behind his tort'ring toyle. 1669A. Thorold in St. Papers, Dom. 505 An eminent French Protestant..put to a torturing death. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxiii, This state of torturing suspense. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam x. viii, [He] bade the torturing wheel Be brought. 1867A. J. Wilson Vashti xvii, Her past.., of which the bare memory was so torturing.
Hence ˈtorturingly adv.
a1625Fletcher & Massinger Laws of Candy iii. ii, An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly. 1882T. Hardy Two on Tower ix, He was there a torturingly long time. |