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Definition of Torturously
1. Adverb. In a very painful manner. "The progress was agonizingly slow"
Definition of Torturously
1. Adverb. In a torturous fashion, or as if in torture ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Torturously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torturously
Literary usage of Torturously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"Only in the shelter where the two rescued ones turned torturously back on to the
highway of life was there a waking eye in the camp. ..."
2. Battle for Ulster: A Study of Internal Security by Tom F. Baldy (1997)
"The costs of deviating from this torturously narrow path are still being measured
in the province in terms of lives and materiel lost. ..."
3. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1879)
"Except the wretched chain-gang plodding torturously back and forward on the
hillside, not a soul nor an animal could be seen in motion outside the Stockade. ..."
4. Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons by Theodore Parker (1855)
"The pictured horrors of De Bry report only a drop of the blood so torturously
shed; yet two hundred and fifty years ago they terrified all Europe — Latin, ..."
5. The Nebraska Question: Some Thoughts on the New Assult Upon Freedom in by Theodore Parker (1854)
"The pictured horrors of De Bry report only a drop of the^ blood so torturously
shed; yet two hundred and fifty years ago they terrified all Europe — Latin, ..."
6. Tyrol and the Tyrolese: The People and the Land in Their Social, Sporting by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1877)
"... doing away with the usual public dancing, and in fact turning the usual
merrymakings at a rural wedding into the torturously wearisome ceremony ..."
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