plural self-torments
Definition of self-torment
: the act or an instance of tormenting oneself especially psychologically
years of self-torment … he had an unfortunate taste for gambling; and … he always lost thrice where he gained once. That's a mode of self-torment I never was much addicted to.— Anne Brontë I have not yet looked at the newspaper. Generally I leave it till I come back tired from my walk; it amuses me then to see what the noisy world is doing, what new self-torments men have discovered …— Henry Ryecroft
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The first known use of self-torment was in 1624
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