vexation
English
Etymology
From Middle English vexacioun, from Old French vexacion, from Latin vexātiō; synchronically analyzable as vex + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛkˈseɪʃən/
Audio (Berkshire) (file) - Hyphenation: vex‧a‧tion
Noun
vexation (countable and uncountable, plural vexations)
- The act of annoying, vexing, or irritating.
- The state of being vexed or irritated.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 12:
- 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.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 55”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], OCLC 365836:
- He gave the doctor a look of vexation. He was surprised to see him, and resented the intrusion.
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- Something that vexes or irritates.
Translations
act of annoying, vexing or irritating
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state of being vexed or irritated
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something that vexes or irritates
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛk.sa.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “vexation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
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