highwrought

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highwrought

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From high + wrought.

adjective

archaic, not comparable Highly excited; overwrought; worked up. The downy cloth of our meeting mounts was now of real use to break the violence of the tilt; and soon, too soon indeed! the highwrought agitation, the sweet urgency of this to-and-fro friction, raised the titillation on me to its height

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@misc{highwrought_2026,
  title = {highwrought},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/highwrought},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}