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Definition of Self-torment
1. Noun. Self-imposed distress.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-torment
Literary usage of Self-torment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of David Blaustein: Educator and Communal Worker by Miriam Umstadter Blaustein (1913)
"They wonder why he does not lend His ear to their prayers, why He does not see
their humiliation, why He does not care for their self-torment. ..."
2. Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrinesby Nyanatiloka by Nyanatiloka (1980)
"... is the Noble Eightfold Path which, by avoiding the two extremes of sensual
lust and self-torment, leads to enlightenment and deliverance from suffering. ..."
3. Liberal and Mystical Writings of William Law by William Law, William Porcher Dubose (1908)
"... anguish, contrariety, and self-torment; and all for this plain reason, because
nature is, and can be, nothing else but this variety of self-torment till ..."
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