painmaking

painmaking (comparative more painmaking, superlative most painmaking)

1. Alternative form of pain-making
   • 1898, Herbert George Wells, The Stolen Body:

     Moreover, the evil spirit was angry because his time had been so short and because of the painmaking violent movements and casting his body about.

   • 1985, The Washington Monthly - Volumes 17-18, page 12:

     New techniques, such as painmaking drugs; pseudo-legal dodges, such as incommunicado detention and "disappearances"; ancient scenarios, such as children forced to watch the :orture of their mothers — these practices have spread rapidly around the world.

   • 2002, Gavin Evans, Dancing Shoes is Dead: A Tale of Fighting Men in South Africa:

     Inside the prison, the chosen few readied themselves to leave their place of incarceration for three precious, painstaking, painmaking hours on the town.

painmaking (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of pain-making
   • 1987, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service:

     Painmaking has replaced lawmaking.

   • 2000, Yang-Un Moon, Multi-Mega-Trans-Metamorphosis: Iii Arrival, →ISBN, page 22:

     Spawned healthy seeds, seizure, sporadical spasm of numbing habit of painmaking, face the real pain, scorching painful pang.

   • 2007, S. R. Osborn, Song of Earth, →ISBN, page 77:

     Torch the land, insert a queer talent for painmaking, mental anguishizing.