anguish

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

   “So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.”

   “Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?”

   “Love of your selfe, she saide, and deare constraint, Lets me not sleepe, but wast the wearie night In secret anguish and unpittied plaint, Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.”

   “But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.”

   “There, loathing Life, and yet of Death afraid, In Anguish of her Spirit, thus she pray'd.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To suffer pain.

   “c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.”

2. (transitive)To cause to suffer pain.

name

1. A surname.

   “Edmund Anguish of Somerleighton”

   “By request, Mr. Anguish, who is an expert on comb honey, was asked to give some points on its production: Mr. Anguish uses a divisible brood chamber. […]”

   “On motion of Mr. Anguish, the House concurred in the Senate amendments to House Bill No. 115 by the following vote: Those voting yea were: Representatives Adams (Wm. H.), Adamson, Allen, Anderson (W. M.), Anguish, Aspinwall, Atkinson […]”

2. (rare)A male given name.

   “[…] been ready and willing to take one of the children by her husband, not being the eldest, to live with her; and that she did afterwards fix upon one of such children, named Anguish, and did request her husband to permit the said child to reside and live with her, […] and the defendant futher pleaded, that the said Anguish, the said child in the said declaration mentioned was not born at the time of the sealing and delivering of the said indenture, but long afterwards.”