† inasperatev.
Obsolete. rare.
To provoke to cruelty or bitterness; to exasperate, embitter.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > exacerbation of suffering > exacerbate suffering [verb (transitive)]
sauce?1518
exasperate1561
aggravate1576
inasperate1592
to set forward1611
exacerbate1660
aggregea1678
sharpen1768
embitter1781
nettle1821
exaggerate1850
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > treat cruelly [verb (transitive)] > render cruel > provoke to cruelty
inasperate1592
1592 H. Wotton Let. 28 Dec. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 708 To sweeten the humours of that Family, not a little inaspirated by the Death of Alfonso.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 242 Their doubt of farther inasperating the Turke in his Cruelty.
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