tormentrye

Noun

 * 1) Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
 * 2) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 248-252:
 * "enm"

- Thou seist to me, it is a greet meschief To wedde a povre womman, for costage; And if that she be riche, of heigh parage, Than seistow that it is a tormentrye To suffre hir pryde and hir malencolye.