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self-tormentors

self-tormentors is the plural of self-tormentor.

Meaning of self-tormentor

Noun

self-tormentor (plural self-tormentors)

  1. A person who torments himself or herself.
    • [Anger] macerates, and vexes the soul with fury, so that they become self-tormentors; Rage, and fury, tortures more then wrong and injury.1659, Samuel Clarke, chapter 9, in Medulla Theologiæ, or, The Marrow of Divinity, London: Thomas Underhill, page 73

Questions about self-tormentors

What is self-tormentors the plural of?
Self-tormentors is the plural of self-tormentor.

Words near self-tormentors in the dictionary

  1. self-tests
  2. self-thinking
  3. self-timer
  4. self-titled
  5. self-tormentor
  6. self-tormentors
  7. self-training
  8. self-trainings
  9. self-trapped
  10. self-treatment
  11. self-treatments

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