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exasperation|ɛgzɑːspəˈreɪʃən, -æ-|
[ad. L. exasperātiōn-em, n. of action f. exasperāre: see exasperate v.]
1. Of a disease, etc.: Increase of violence or malignity; exacerbation; an instance of this.
1633Wotton Let. in Reliq. Wott. (1672) 457 Judging, as of Patients in Feavers, by the exasperation of the fits. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. ii. xlvi. 315 Shivering, and Exasperation of the Feaver..are not always to be accounted evil. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Power Wks. (Bohn) II. 334 The ecstasies of devotion with the exasperations of debauchery. 1884in Syd. Soc. Lex.
2. The action of exasperating or provoking to anger; embittering; intense provocation; an instance of this. Also, a cause or means of exasperating.
a1631Donne in Selections (1840) 38 Forbearing all..exasperations by odious names of subdivision. 1676Owen Worship of God 172 That he may take no occasion thereby for the exasperation of his own spirit. a1731Atterbury (J.), Their ill usage and exasperations of him..disposed him to take liberty. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. (1868) 26 He had made ties for himself which..were a constant exasperation.
3. The condition of being exasperated or intensely irritated; exasperated feeling, violent passion or anger; † an instance of this.
1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. xxxii. (1870) 205 Saying..that..I wold set them by the fete..wyth other wordes I had to them of exasperacyon. 1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. xix. iv, Neither the furious purposes of Ahaziah, nor the exasperations of a Jezebel can hurt that prophet. 1672Owen Evang. Love 43 Divisions and Schisms, and mutual Exasperations among themselves. a1716South Serm. (1774) X. ix. 282 Perhaps..it was a word extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. 1817Bentham Parl. Ref. Catech. Introd. 56 Should the only remedy be refused [and] oppression continue..then it is not quiet sense that will speak, but exasperation. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 13 The exasperation of the people with the English increased the cordiality with which he was received.
†4. Exaggeration (in a bad sense); ‘malignant representation’ (J.). = aggravation 5. Obs. rare.
1648Eikon Bas. §3. 12 An act which My enemies loaded with all the obloquies and exasperations they could. 1755in Johnson; whence 1818in Todd.
¶5. Punningly, Misplaced ‘aspiration’.
1854‘Cuthb. Bede’ Verdant Green ii. ix. 80 With a footman's bow, and a footman's hexasperation of his h's. |