Definition of Excruciations

1. Noun. (plural of excruciation) ¹

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Definition of Excruciations

1. excruciation [n] - See also: excruciation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excruciations

excretory duct
excretory ducts of lacrimal gland
excretory ductules of lacrimal gland
excretory organ
excretory product
excruciable
excruciate
excruciated
excruciates
excruciating
excruciatingly
excruciation
excruciations
excrudescence
excrudescences
excrutiate
excsc
excubant
excubation
excubitoria
excubitorium
excudit
exculpable
exculpate
exculpated
exculpates
exculpating

Literary usage of Excruciations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dickens as an Educator by James Laughlin Hughes (1900)
"The crammers and coaches are those who are tested by " competitive excruciations "; and how those who force th-ough most students boast and strut and lord ..."

2. Dickens as an Educator by James Laughlin Hughes (1900)
"Dickens makes the artist in Somebody's Luggage say: " Who are you passing every day at your competitive excruciations? The fortunate candidates whose heads ..."

3. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by Robert Browning, W. Tyas Harden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, William Groser (1880)
"He is said to have compared the agonies which the vicious shall then endure to the excruciations of a living body bound among the flames, and being consumed ..."

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