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Tormentress

Tormentress \Tor*ment"ress\, n. A woman who torments.

Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor.
--Holland.

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tormentress

n. A female tormentor.

Usage examples of "tormentress".

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her tormentress approach a full-length wall-mirror.

Once more, she saw the feet arch up onto tiptoe as her tormentress pressed her pubis against the glass.

She could, she reasoned with that fraction of her brain that still functioned, buck and bounce in order to unseat her sweet tormentress from her throne of flesh.

That bitch who tormented me all my days there, and all my nights since, the tormentress of all my dreams.

The seductress did not even give any hope to the unfortunate young man, for hope, real hope, was given him only at the very last moment, when he, kneeling before his tormentress, stretched out to her his hands already stained with the blood of his father and rival : precisely in that position he was arrested.

Wincing at the thought, the Reaper took comfort in knowing what his tormentress said was true, but he needed to know the stasis was holding, that Aisling was, indeed, sleeping.

Once he had his tormentress on her knees on the floor, Cree let go of her hand, turned-and with a vicious smile on his face-hopped up on the treatment table, lay down, and spread his arms and legs.

The auburn-haired culprit, now that she was pinioned and helpless, ground her teeth, closed her eyes under the blindfold and resolved to give her tormentresses no satisfaction of her suffering.