tormentise – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of tormentise

Noun: tormentise
Sg.tormentise

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • But natheles this Seneca the wyse
  • Chees in a bath to deye in this manere
  • Rather than han another tormentyse; (But nonetheless this Seneca the wise
  • Chose in a bath to die in this manner
  • Rather than have another form of torment;
  • And thus has Nero slain his dear master.) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3705-3708]

Nouns inflected like tormentise

syment, cristened, savete, savyne, sandal, whelere, scuage, scluse, sclise, sclave, schyft, schuit, schite, schort, schold, schern, smothe, smethe, smerte, slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Compare English torment. See: English Nouns 'torment'.

Translations