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torvid

torvid adjective: fierce, stern.

Adjective

torvid (comparative more torvid, superlative most torvid)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) Fierce, stern.
    • […] but yesterday his breath / Aw’d Rome, and his least torved frown was death.a. 1632, John Webster, Appius and Virginia; republished as William Hazlitt, editor, The Dramatic Works of John Webster, volume 3, 1857, page 219
    • That wary labourers, in passing by, / May not suspect his master's idle life, / Lest, urg’d by smiling truth or torvid jealousy, / They carry information to the little Nimrod of the borough town1803, George Ardley, “Autumn Leaves; a descriptive Poem”, in The Universal Magazine, volume 1, number 5, published May 1804, page 514

Forms of torvid

comparativemore torvid
superlativemost torvid

Origin of torvid

Borrowed from Latin torvidus.

Questions about torvid

What does torvid mean?
Torvid means fierce, stern.
What part of speech is torvid?
Torvid is an adjective.

Words near torvid in the dictionary

  1. torus tubarius
  2. toruses
  3. Toruń
  4. Torvalds
  5. Torver
  6. torvid
  7. Torvill
  8. torvity
  9. torvonin
  10. torvosaurid
  11. torvosaurids

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