vexation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Late Middle English vexacioun, vexation (“physical suffering; act of inflicting trouble (specifically through unjustified legal action); anxiety, mental distress; mental disturbance”), from Anglo-Norman vexacion, vexation, Middle French vexacion, vexation (“distress, suffering; harassment (specifically through unjustified legal action)”), and Old French vexacion, vexation (“distress, suffering; harassment”) (modern French vexation), and from their etymon Latin vexātiō (“shaking or similar violent movement; (causing of) agitation, distress, suffering; harassment, persecution; trouble”), from vexātus + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Vexātus is the perfect passive participle of vexō (“to shake or jolt violently; to annoy, harass; to persecute; to trouble violently”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. By surface analysis, vex + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process or its result, or a quality or state). Doublet of quake.
Inflected forms:
form: vexations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] I mourne in my prayer, and make a noiſe, / For the voyce of the enemie, & for the vexation of the vvicked, becauſe they haue broght iniquitie vpon me, & furiouſly hate me.
I ſtill had hopes, my long vexations paſt, / Here to return—and die at home at laſt.
gloss: The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And, gentle Puck, take this transformed ſcalpe, / From the heade of this Athenian ſvvaine [Nick Bottom]; / That hee, avvaking vvhen the other do, / May all to Athens backe againe repaire, / And thinke no more of this nights accidents, / But as the fearce vexation of a dreame.
O Rome, in vvhat a ſickneſſe art thou fall'n! / Hovv dangerous, and deadly! vvhen thy head / Is drovvn'd in ſleepe, and all thy body feu'ry! / No noiſe, no pulling, no vexation vvakes thee, […]
gloss: The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The state of being vexed, annoyed, or irritated; annoyance, irritation; also, disappointment, discontentment, unhappiness; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "Indeed you perplex me intolerably;" cried Cecilia, vvith ſome vexation, "VVhy, Sir, vvill you not be more explicit?"
All was safe and prosperous; and as the removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another, Emma, being now certain of her ball, began to adopt as the next vexation Mr. Knightley's provoking indifference about it.
[…] I spoke of the constant vexation I suffered because I could not draw better.
He clenched his fists in vexation and looked up at her impetuously.
He gave the doctor a look of vexation. He was surprised to see him, and resented the intrusion.
gloss: The state of being vexed, annoyed, or irritated; annoyance, irritation; also, disappointment, discontentment, unhappiness; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Thus I haue conſidered all the thinges that come to paſſe vnder the Sõne, ⁊ lo, they are all but vanitie ⁊ vexacion of mynde.
[M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
Full of vexation, come I, vvith complaint / Againſt my childe, my daughter Hermia.
So ſome, ſaith Fracaſtorius [Girolamo Fracastoro], in fury, but moſt in despaire, ſorrovv, feare, and out of the anguiſh and vexation of their ſoules, offer violence to themſelues: for their life is vnhappy and miſerable.
And vvhether Poverty or Riches produce the Vexation, the Impreſſion it makes upon the Heart, is alike from both.
Truly, I think thou hast, and if anything could add to my grief and vexation at this moment, it is, that when I am so deep in the mire, an ass like thee should place his clumsy hoof on my head, to sink me entirely.
gloss: The state of being vexed, annoyed, or irritated; annoyance, irritation; also, disappointment, discontentment, unhappiness; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A source of mental distress or trouble; an affliction, a woe; also, a source of annoyance or irritation; an annoyance, an irritant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: [S]hould ſhe thus be ſtolne avvay from you, / It vvould be much vexation to your age.
She did harass Helen to give me up; but, after all, poor woman, I believe I have been a great vexation to her, and I cannot help being sorry for her.
gloss: The action of using force or violence on someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: 'Tis Princely, vvhen a Tyranne doth oppoſe; / And is a fortune ſent to exerciſe / Your vertue, as the vvind doth try ſtrong trees: / VVho by vexation grovv more ſound, and firme.
Name the vexations, and the Martyrizations / Of Metalls, in the VVorke.
Let No Ground be ſovved that is Planted vvith Vines; for the Earth hath enough to do to Attend the Services of That Plant, vvithout the Superfluous Vexations of the Plovv over and above.
Related words: vex
vexed
vexer
vexing
unvexed
Derived words: vexatious
vexatiously
vexatiousness
unvexatious
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: дразнене
roman: draznene
lang: Catalan
word: vexació
lang: Czech
word: otravování
lang: Dutch
word: ergernis
lang: Finnish
word: ärtyminen
lang: Finnish
word: ärsyttäminen
lang: Finnish
word: ärsytys
lang: French
word: tracas
lang: French
word: tracasserie
lang: Galician
word: vexación
lang: Georgian
word: გაღიზიანება
roman: gaɣizianeba
lang: German
word: Ärger
lang: German
word: Ärgernis
lang: German
word: Belästigung
lang: German
word: Beunruhigung
lang: German
word: Irritation
lang: German
word: Plage
lang: German
word: Störung
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀχθηδών
roman: akhthēdṓn
lang: Italian
word: vessazione
lang: Latin
word: vexātiō
lang: Macedonian
word: дразнење
roman: draznenje
lang: Macedonian
word: нервирање
roman: nerviranje
lang: Portuguese
word: vexação
lang: Romanian
word: vexațiune
lang: Romanian
word: vexare
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sàrachadh
lang: Spanish
word: vejación
lang: Spanish
word: vejamen
lang: Bulgarian
word: раздразнение
roman: razdraznenie
lang: Czech
word: otrava
lang: Finnish
word: ärtymys
lang: Finnish
word: harmitus
lang: Finnish
word: keljutus
lang: Finnish
word: kenkutus
lang: French
word: contrariété
lang: Galician
word: vexación
lang: Georgian
word: გაღიზიანება
roman: gaɣizianeba
lang: German
word: Ärger
lang: German
word: Beunruhigung
lang: German
word: Irritation
lang: German
word: Qual
lang: German
word: Verdruss
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀγανάκτησις
roman: aganáktēsis
lang: Latin
word: vexātiō
lang: Macedonian
word: раздразнување
roman: razdraznuvanje
lang: Macedonian
word: надразнетост
roman: nadraznetost
lang: Māori
word: whanowhanoā
lang: Portuguese
word: vexação
lang: Russian
word: раздражение
roman: razdraženije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mì-shuaimhneas
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sàrachadh
lang: Spanish
word: vejación
lang: Swedish
word: förargelse
lang: Swedish
word: förtret
lang: Tocharian B
word: krāso
lang: Ukrainian
word: роздратува́ння
roman: rozdratuvánnja