tormento

You mean they were caustic and dismissive of their tormento... — ummm

The Volokh Conspiracy » Clive Crook (at The Atlantic) on “ClimateGate” 2009

A pesar de todo, yo tratare de no juzgar a los culpables de este tormento y seguiré suprimiendo esta rabia que llevo dentro.

Ju��rez Writer Begs for Three Violence-Free Days 2008

Even at this early stage, Haedo is found suggesting that the prisoner should be tortured till he tells the whole truth: 'pido sea puesto á quistion de tormento hasta que enteramente diga verdad etc.'

Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

Even at this early stage, Haedo is found suggesting that the prisoner should be tortured till he tells the whole truth: 'pido sea puesto a quistion de tormento hasta que enteramente diga verdad etc.'

Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

It is at once apparent how little reliance may be placed upon the assertion so often repeated in the minutes of trials, "confessionem esse veram, non factam vi tormentorum" (the confession was true and free), even though one had not occasionally read in the preceding pages that, after being taken down from the rack (postquam depositus fuit de tormento), he freely confessed this or that.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Quando algun entraua en Casa de Algun prinçipal de noçhe contra la voluntad de su dueño tenia pena de muerte y era costumbre quando se cojia alguno destos dalle primero tormento por saber si lo auia enbiado algun otro prinçipal y si confesaua auer sido mandado tenia pena de esClauo y El que lo enbio tenia pena de muerte de la qual podia librar se pagando cantidad de oro por El delito.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Various 1906

Lopez, y hizieron otras y apresaron el navio y sacaron con las favas todo lo que les parecio necessario del Vino y aguardientes y toda la plata y demas que havia de valor, y dieron tormento a dos Espagnoles para que descubriessen si havia mas plata y curtaron velas y Jarzias, menos la mayor, y alargaron el Navio con la gente menos cinco o seys, que trageron consigo y entre ellos el declarante.

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

I said that nothing mitigated the _tormento d'amore_ like beginning the day with a sustaining meal.

The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

[3] A _tormento_ (most appropriate name) is a tempest of wind, and sleet, and snow, exceedingly dangerous to those who are met by it.

The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829

Arrenega tu do argem que me vem a dar tormento, porque hum soo contentamento

Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501