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noun

Vexation n.

The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation. "Passions too violent... afford us nothing but vexation and pain." "Those who saw him after a defeat looked in vain for any trace of vexation."

The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction. "Your children were vexation to your youth."

A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.

Synonyms: Chagrin; agitation; mortification; uneasiness; trouble; grief; sorrow; distress. See Chagrin.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vexation" Quotes from Famous Books

... of stumbling upon an answer with which he might first of all hammer the witness and then erect a defence. His efforts went unrewarded, and behind him in the dock Mr. Morgan ground his teeth with vexation. That he was not getting his friends' money's worth was obvious. He did not expect to get off, but if he could have seen Lyveden discredited he would have taken his gruel with a grin. Venomously ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... in vexation," answered the Fawn, "if you do not, for when I hear the horn, I think I shall jump out of my skin." The Sister, finding she could not prevent him, opened the door, with a heavy heart, and the Fawn jumped out, quite delighted, ...

— Grimm's Fairy Stories • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

... been floating down the Great River, and for three days I had kept my word. Mademoiselle had not been annoyed by me; she had hardly seen me. Much to my captain's vexation, I had refused to take my meals with him and mademoiselle, though our cozy table of three had been one of the brightest parts of my dream when I ...

— The Rose of Old St. Louis • Mary Dillon

... blow you up any more, av you're to blow yourself up in the beacon in futur'. Arrah! there's the bell again. Sorrow wan o' me iver gits to slape, but I'm turned up immadiately to go an' poke away at that rock— faix, it's well named the Bell Rock, for it makes me like to bellow me lungs out wid vexation." ...

— The Lighthouse • R.M. Ballantyne

... satisfaction, either in wealth and all that it can command, getting on in life, or in fame and power. They allure at first and promise happiness, but they fail us, and finally are seen to be but vanity and vexation ...

— Within You is the Power • Henry Thomas Hamblin

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