单词 | annoyment |
释义 | annoymentn. 1. The action of causing annoyance or irritation; a feeling of annoyance or irritation. Also formerly: †the action of causing harm; harm, injury (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] annoy?c1225 noyancec1400 vexation?a1425 crabbingc1450 annoyance1502 grudging1530 vexation of spirit1535 fret1556 fashery1558 spitea1586 gall1591 molestation1598 annoyment1607 incommodation1664 vexednessa1670 tracasserie1715 incommodement1733 frettation1779 vex1815 balls-ache1938 sterks1941 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > action of annoying or vexing annoyingc1330 troublingc1340 displeasinga1387 noyance?a1400 irkingc1400 annoyancec1405 noyancy1414 vexing?a1425 annoyment1607 displeasanting1628 ruffling1647 gratinga1716 narking1894 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 530 In this annoyment [Fr. effroy], if they had furiously assayled the Towne, in shew, it had beene forceable. 1626 A. Holland Naumachia sig. B2, in Hollandi Post-huma The peaceable do hereby feare annoyment. 1659 tr. J. Nouet Answer Provinciall Lett. published by Jansenists 107 This opinion also is not to be allowed in practice; because it would give occasion to many secret Murthers, to the great annoyment of the Commonwealth. 1733 Palace Misc. 37 Age is whatever gives Annoyment To the Career of Love's Enjoyment. 1779 J. Carver New Universal Traveller 60/1 Snakes will also sometimes..exert their stings, no less to the great annoyment than danger of the inhabitants. 1834 C. Darwin Let. 8 Nov. (1985) I. 418 One great source of his annoyment, was the feeling that it was impossible to fulfil the whole instructions. 1883 D. Wingate Lost Laird xxxvi McDougal..loved him too much to add to his annoyment. 1962 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 13 Dec. 12/4 Can you tell us whether you read and listen to these things, and whether they produce annoyment or enjoyment? 1992 J. B. Holloway Pilgrim & Bk. (rev. ed.) V. 140 He also notes Grosseteste's annoyment at a curate who ‘dressed in rings & scarlet like a courtier’. 2. Something which causes annoyance or irritation; an annoyance, a nuisance. ΚΠ 1659 S. Cradock Knowl. & Pract. ii. xx. 585 Infested with sinful and unruly passions and affections of all sorts, which are a great annoyment to it [sc. the body]. a1744 J. Miller Serm. Var. Subj. (1749) 299 Where Vanity shall be no more, but free and unburden'd from all its Clogs and Annoyments, we shall travel on from one Degree of Perfection to another. 1840 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 16 Dec. The long-protracted blockade of Buenos Ayres is a serious annoyment to such of our merchants as have trade there. 2007 R. Merullo Breakfast with Buddha (2008) vii. 40 It was an annoyment all the same. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < |
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