excruciationn.
/ɛkˌskruːsɪˈeɪʃən/ The action of causing or the state of suffering extreme pain; an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > anguish or torment > causing
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1618 T. Gainsford True Hist. P. Warbeck 14 After she had liued a while in..excruciation both of soule and body.
1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 191 Can his excruciation be a sufficient cause for our execution?
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 305 The thwartings, and the excruciations of life.
1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. i. 5 The doom of men to excruciation in endlessness.
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