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Definition of Torture chamber
1. Noun. A room in which torture is inflicted.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torture Chamber
Literary usage of Torture chamber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1838)
"In the castle at the latter place, I was shewn a torture chamber, ... The torture
chamber at Saltzburg was situated in a small square tower. (Plate XVI. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist by James Baldwin Brown (1823)
"Nor did the prisons of this city, or in any part of the Prussian dominions,
contain a torture- chamber, Frederic the Great having humanely set the example ..."
3. Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia by Karl von Gebler (1879)
"a short final examination had to take place outside the torture chamber, at which
the accused was told that he had better confess, or recourse will be had ..."
4. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"In another, when a few turns of thej/ garrote have twisted a single cord into
his arm—or even at the mere aspect of the torture-chamber, with its grimly ..."
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