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Definition of Excruciations
1. excruciation [n] - See also: excruciation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excruciations
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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