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Webster 1913 Edition


Tortious

Tor′tious

,
Adj.
[From
Tort
.]
1.
Injurious; wrongful.
[Obs.]
Tortious power.”
Spenser.
2.
(Law)
Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tortious

TOR'TIOUS

,
Adj.
[from tort.] Injurious; done by wrong.
1.
In law, implying tort, or injury for which the law gives damages.

Definition 2024


tortious

tortious

English

Adjective

tortious (comparative more tortious, superlative most tortious)

  1. (obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.9:
      he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […].
  2. (law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

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