tormentuous
adjEtymology From torment + -uous.
1
Causing great grief or agony; painful; agonising
- Although, it is not a handshake I would readily reciprocate because my waking to such comprehension has been and is used for tormentuous affliction and mind control.2009, Alvin J. Moore, Visions of a Self-Named Prophet:
- Having brought the dead soul to life, the Spirit comes like fire in its terrible and tormentuous power, to purify the regenerate sinner.2012, C.H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon: