Meanings (ES + gloss)
zaherir
To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.
For the fire-baptised soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven, here feels its own Freedom, which feeling is its Baphometic Baptism: […]
There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul—that penetrate to the vital seat of happiness—and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom.