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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of torments in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of torments in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of torments in a Sentence

  1. The Hitopadesa:

    A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

  2. Aurora Berill:

    There will be times when you will experience the torments of life. Despite the difficulties, keep moving, and you will move toward the happiness you want.

  3. Stan Openshaw - Doomsday:

    Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .

  4. William Blake:

    What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

  5. Joseph de Maistre:

    Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

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