anguishedadj.

1570 A. Marten tr. J. Bernard Tranquillitie of Minde f. 35^v They..do truely bewaile their sinnes: and in this anguished minde..doe humbly flye..to the vnspeakeable mercye of God.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlvii. sig. Q5 The spirits shrinke inward, and retire to the anguisht heart.

1672 T. Gale Anat. Infidelitie i. vii. 49 The sweat of an anguished, troubled spirit.

1738 London Mag. Oct. 514/2 Come and ease my troubled breast, Give my anguish'd bosom rest.

1752 W. Goodall Adventures Capt. Greenland IV. xii. xvi. 228 I can gather no Relief to my anguish'd Soul.

1818 Art of preserving Feet 50 Anguished sufferers try these panaceas.

1857 S. Winkworth tr. J. Tauler Serm. xxv. 391 The thorns of an anguished conscience.

1922 R. Sabatini Capt. Blood (U.S. ed.) ii. 19 He swung away again, leaving her faint and trembling in the arms of her anguished mother.

1954 Flying Mar. 38/2 One horrible thought after another entered my anguished mind.

2004 E. Herman Sex with Kings (2005) iii. 78 The mask of learned dignity covered an anguished heart.

1682 R. Goodridge 3 First Bks. Psalms (lxxiv. 21) 116 Let not the Simple, still be sham'd! but raise The Poor, and turn his anguish'd sighs to praise.

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. 369 Methinks my brother's anguish'd look I see, The panting nostril and the trembling knee.

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham I. xix. 290 A thousand torments wait on love; The sigh, the tear, the anguish'd groan!

1830 Olio 5 59/1 No voice responded to his anguished cry.

1864 J. M. Neale Seatonian Poems 7 The ocean with unwonted roar, And anguish'd moan, shall vex his shore.

1920 N. Davis Other Woman iv. 79 ‘Those men—those terrible detectives—’ she made an anguished gesture—‘with their theories and their questions and their clues!’

1952 A. Buckeridge Jennings & Darbishire xii. 183 ‘Doh!’ An anguished gasp of exasperation rang out loud and clear.

2015 B. Stanley Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (U.S. ed.) lviii. 533 For the rest of the nineties, the Verve's anguished rock ballads provided British rock's rough template.

1803 Lady's Monthly Museum Feb. 139 No anguish'd feelings wound the mind, For friendship heals the heart that bled!

1874 J. Lawrence Angel Voices from Spirit World 385 The canker-worm of guilt is ever gnawing at my vitals..referring annihilation to obliviate the anguished recollection of my crimes.

1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom iv. 35 Laura..inconsequently remembered a quarter of an hour she had once spent in a dentist's ante-room: there, as here, the same soundless vacancy, the same anguished expectancy.

1981 Country Life 8 Oct. 1195/1 His journal..reveals a man..who seeks relief from his sense of self-betrayal in..anguished introspection.

2015 Russian Life (Montpelier, Vermont) July 49/2 Trotsky wrote that his most anguished memory from that night was hearing Sieva's tearful cries as the bullets rattled the building.

1854 ‘M. Harland’ Alone (ed. 3) xvii. 205 ‘I did love him!’ she cried, anguishedly.

1965 Economist 20 Mar. 1245/1 BBC employees are anguishedly declaring that TAM must be investigated.

2010 Art Jrnl. 69 84 The dislocation of millions of people who were already leading anguishedly difficult lives.