molestationn.

Brit.

/ˌməʊlɛˈsteɪʃn/,

/məʊlᵻˈsteɪʃn/,

/mɒlɛˈsteɪʃn/,

/mɒlᵻˈsteɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌmoʊˌlɛˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/,

/ˌmoʊləˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English molestacioun, late Middle English molestacioune, late Middle English molestacyon, late Middle English 1600s molestacion, late Middle English– molestation, 1500s molestatione, 1500s–1600s molestacon, 1600s mollestation; Scottish pre-1700 molestacion, pre-1700 molestacione, pre-1700 molestacioun, pre-1700 molestacon, pre-1700 molestatione, pre-1700 molestatioun, pre-1700 molestatioune, pre-1700 1700s– molestation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French molestation; Latin molestation-, molestatio.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French molestation (c1334; compare use of molester molest v. in specific legal contexts from 13th cent. in Old French) and their etymon post-classical Latin molestation-, molestatio action of molesting (4th cent.; from c1200 in British sources) < classical Latin molestāt- , past participial stem of molestāre molest v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.

a. Scots Law. The harassing of a person with regard to his or her possession or use of lands, occupation of an office, etc. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1416 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 539 The said party na nane othir man makand thaim impedyment..na molestacione.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 99 The pape..may tak fra thame thair foresaid jurisdictioun..gif thai mak ony molestacioun to cristyn yat is jn thair jurisdictioun.

1497 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 65 Or yit, that ye or thai mak ony arrestment, molestatioun, tribule, or injur to the saide Nicholl.

1547 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 72 He sall desist and cese fra all stop, molestatioun, lett, and impediment making to the said Schir George Douglas.

1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 275 The partie makand the invasioun, persute, and molestatioun sall pay..the soum of fyve thousand markis.

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Assisa In sundrie civil causes, sik as perambulations, cognitions, molestations,..serving of brieves, and in all and sundrie criminal causes.

1627 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 359 Sik as beis imprissonet for capitall crymes, truble, molestatioun or ryett done within the said burghe.

1722 W. Forbes Institutes II. iii. 202 Molestation is the disturbing, molesting, and disquieting an Heretor of Lands and his Tenants.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 657 An action of molestation is a possessory action, calculated for continuing proprietors in the lawful possession of their lands during the dependence of any question in relation to the right thereto.

1946 A. D. Gibb Students' Gloss. Sc. Legal Terms 56 Molestation, Action of, an action for defence of the possession of heritage against molestation or the troubling of the pursuer in his possession. Obs.

b. Law. Intentional interference with another so as to injure his or her person, character, or property, esp. by one spouse with the other in cases of marital separation.

ΚΠ

1602 C. St. Lawrence Pass 13 Mar. in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. ii. 218 To p(er)mitt and suffer hym to passe in and through yo(u)r sev(er)all Iurissdictions without any lett or molestacion whatsoev(er).

1861 E. T. Hurlstone & J. P. Norman Excheq. Rep. VI. 453 The words ‘molest or disturb’, in that covenant, mean personal molestation or disturbance.

1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 543/2 It amounted to substantial molestation, using the word ‘molestation’ in the sense of injury knowingly and without lawful excuse inflicted upon another in his person, character, social position, or property.

1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 796 The molestation may be of different kinds; adultery and the birth of an illegitimate child as a consequence of that adultery are sufficient evidence of molestation.

1885 Law Times Rep. 53 306/1 The trustees covenanted to indemnify the husband from the debts of and molestation by the wife.

1982 All Eng. Law Rep. 2 497 In divorce proceedings the court..has for years been granting injunctions restraining molestation and/or interference of one party to the marriage by the other.

1990 Ld. Donaldson in Family Law Rep. I. 352 Harassment..includes within it an element of intent, intent to cause distress or harm. For my part, I think that ‘molestation’ has that meaning whenever it is used.

a. gen. The action of harassing a person or thing; the condition of being harassed; intentional annoyance, hostile interference; †vexation, distress (obsolete). Also in weakened sense: †the act of disturbing, disturbance (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun]

drovinga1400

vexation1413

molestation1435

inquietation1461

inquieting1527

hershipc1540

pesterment1593

gêne1787

harassment1893

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile interference

molestc1390

vexationa1425

molestation1435

molesting1523

molestance1642

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > harassment

baiting1303

cumbrance1377

persecutiona1382

pursuita1387

aggrievancea1400

vexing?a1425

molestation1435

stroublance1439

inquietation1461

distrouble1483

infestance1490

encumberment1509

molesting1523

vexationa1525

inquieting1527

inquietance1531

molestie1532

infestationc1540

moiling1565

plaguing1566

pesterment1593

commacerating1599

molestance1642

harass1667

harassing1689

harassment1753

aggrievement1778

badgering1785

pesteration1802

bedevilment1844

worrying1848

tail-twisting1887

bloodhounding1891

aggravation1902

static1923

crap1935

hassle1969

monstering1979

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

1435 Rolls of Parl. IV. 489/2 Ye seid William to be quite and discharged of ye seide brekyng of prison, withoute any arest or empeschement, molestation or grevaunce.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1599 (MED) Wee have no nede to dout[e] werr, ne molestacioun.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. ii. 28 With this regrate our hartis sterit to petie, All molestatioun cessit and lattin be.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 28 Neyther his person, nor none of his countrey should receyve anye molestation of him.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 2 There are some of the Plates (vnto my great molestatione and sorrowe) lost.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Asa Also molestation, lazines, or anxiety of mind.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 16 I neuer did, like molestation [1623 mollestation] view, On the inchafed flood.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westm. 239 Such his hazarding his person, (really worth ten thousand of them) to the great molestation of his true friends.

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i. 10 You are..to move your Suit to Miranda..without Lett or Molestation.

1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers Pref. b 2 The People called Quakers at length obtained Liberty to perform their publick Worship without Molestation.

1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xxii. 324 He arrived in a few weeks without receiving any molestation by the way.

1828 Night Watch I. vi. 72 The sentinel..promising to protect him from further molestation during the watch, he slept soundly till the morning.

1837 E. B. Barrett Lett. to M. R. Mitford (1983) I. 58 I cannot bear to think of the fatigue & molestation which seem so much to oppress you.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 97 He would be safe from Roman molestation.

1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 35/2 That one man..made overtures that if Simon ‘coughed up the cash’ he might continue to operate without molestation.

1991 A. Kemp SAS at War (BNC) 71 The trip took four days but there was no further molestation from the air.

b. Originally U.S. Sexual assault or abuse; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > indecent assault

indecent assault1861

sexual assault1883

sexual interference1932

molestation1945

interference1968

1945 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 14 204 Case 7 deals with violation of the Mann Act (wife prostitution) and case 8 with rape (molestation of female children).

1956 Pacific Reporter 290 250/1 Such offense [sc. indecent exposure] was punishable under either Code section relating to molestation of children.

1977 Washington Post 30 Jan. c2/1 Child molestation and exploitation, including prostitution, pornography, sex perversion and the furnishing of narcotics, are extensive in this city.

1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 5/1 Statistically, most of the harm that befalls children is at the hands of their parents and other family members: rapes, molestations, beatings [etc.].

3. An instance of molesting or being molested; a trouble, an annoyance. Also concrete: a cause of annoyance. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation

thornc1230

dreicha1275

painc1375

cumbrance1377

diseasec1386

a hair in one's necka1450

molestationc1460

incommodity?a1475

melancholya1475

ensoigne1477

annoyance1502

traik1513

incommode1518

corsie1548

eyesore1548

fashery1558

cross1573

spite1577

corrosive1578

wasp1588

cumber1589

infliction1590

gall1591

distaste1602

plague1604

rub1642

disaccommodation1645

disgust1654

annoyment1659

bogle1663

rubber1699

noyancea1715

chagrins1716

ruffle1718

fasha1796

nuisance1814

vex1815

drag1857

bugbear1880

nark1918

pain in the neck (also arse, bum, etc.)1933

sod1940

chizz1953

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1101 (MED) For a molestacioune Ther was noon othir remedy but a consolacioune.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 129 Ther cometh of glotonye..ryottes, wronges, and molestacyons.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 359 Such greefes and molestations as they otherwyse receaue.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 62 I wil withdraw me selfe from al molestations and perplexities.

1601 T. Wright Passions of Minde iv. 29 If the inferior appetite or passions obay & concurre with the will..they take away the molestations and tediousnesse that occurreth in the practise of good woorkes.

1629 J. Cole Of Death 93 The molestations of trade, or worldly affaires.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxii. 213 All the molestations of Marriage are abundantly recompenced with other comforts.

1700 C. Mather in R. Calef More Wonders Invisible World i. 10 The terrible and sensible molestations of Evil Angels.

1760–1 C. Lennox Ladies Museum I. 367 The greatest dangers, or the most sudden molestations, to which the Britons were at this time liable, proceeded solely from their neighbours the Caledonians.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 14 What..are the senses, but five yawning inlets to hourly and momentary molestations?

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. xxv. 269 The man who was as great a molestation to vicious citizens..as to a corrupt clergy.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iv. Comm. 638 There took place, by prearrangement, a molestation of one of the litigants.

1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 34/1 Sitting on that wall at two in the morning, the cold and damp on you like a molestation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	molestation
释义	molestationn. Brit. /ˌməʊlɛˈsteɪʃn/, /məʊlᵻˈsteɪʃn/, /mɒlɛˈsteɪʃn/, /mɒlᵻˈsteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmoʊˌlɛˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmoʊləˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English molestacioun, late Middle English molestacioune, late Middle English molestacyon, late Middle English 1600s molestacion, late Middle English– molestation, 1500s molestatione, 1500s–1600s molestacon, 1600s mollestation; Scottish pre-1700 molestacion, pre-1700 molestacione, pre-1700 molestacioun, pre-1700 molestacon, pre-1700 molestatione, pre-1700 molestatioun, pre-1700 molestatioune, pre-1700 1700s– molestation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French molestation; Latin molestation-, molestatio. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French molestation (c1334; compare use of molester molest v. in specific legal contexts from 13th cent. in Old French) and their etymon post-classical Latin molestation-, molestatio action of molesting (4th cent.; from c1200 in British sources) < classical Latin molestāt- , past participial stem of molestāre molest v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. 1. a. Scots Law. The harassing of a person with regard to his or her possession or use of lands, occupation of an office, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1416 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 539 The said party na nane othir man makand thaim impedyment..na molestacione. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 99 The pape..may tak fra thame thair foresaid jurisdictioun..gif thai mak ony molestacioun to cristyn yat is jn thair jurisdictioun. 1497 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 65 Or yit, that ye or thai mak ony arrestment, molestatioun, tribule, or injur to the saide Nicholl. 1547 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 72 He sall desist and cese fra all stop, molestatioun, lett, and impediment making to the said Schir George Douglas. 1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 275 The partie makand the invasioun, persute, and molestatioun sall pay..the soum of fyve thousand markis. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Assisa In sundrie civil causes, sik as perambulations, cognitions, molestations,..serving of brieves, and in all and sundrie criminal causes. 1627 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 359 Sik as beis imprissonet for capitall crymes, truble, molestatioun or ryett done within the said burghe. 1722 W. Forbes Institutes II. iii. 202 Molestation is the disturbing, molesting, and disquieting an Heretor of Lands and his Tenants. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 657 An action of molestation is a possessory action, calculated for continuing proprietors in the lawful possession of their lands during the dependence of any question in relation to the right thereto. 1946 A. D. Gibb Students' Gloss. Sc. Legal Terms 56 Molestation, Action of, an action for defence of the possession of heritage against molestation or the troubling of the pursuer in his possession. Obs. b. Law. Intentional interference with another so as to injure his or her person, character, or property, esp. by one spouse with the other in cases of marital separation. ΚΠ 1602 C. St. Lawrence Pass 13 Mar. in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. ii. 218 To p(er)mitt and suffer hym to passe in and through yo(u)r sev(er)all Iurissdictions without any lett or molestacion whatsoev(er). 1861 E. T. Hurlstone & J. P. Norman Excheq. Rep. VI. 453 The words ‘molest or disturb’, in that covenant, mean personal molestation or disturbance. 1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 543/2 It amounted to substantial molestation, using the word ‘molestation’ in the sense of injury knowingly and without lawful excuse inflicted upon another in his person, character, social position, or property. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 796 The molestation may be of different kinds; adultery and the birth of an illegitimate child as a consequence of that adultery are sufficient evidence of molestation. 1885 Law Times Rep. 53 306/1 The trustees covenanted to indemnify the husband from the debts of and molestation by the wife. 1982 All Eng. Law Rep. 2 497 In divorce proceedings the court..has for years been granting injunctions restraining molestation and/or interference of one party to the marriage by the other. 1990 Ld. Donaldson in Family Law Rep. I. 352 Harassment..includes within it an element of intent, intent to cause distress or harm. For my part, I think that ‘molestation’ has that meaning whenever it is used. 2. a. gen. The action of harassing a person or thing; the condition of being harassed; intentional annoyance, hostile interference; †vexation, distress (obsolete). Also in weakened sense: †the act of disturbing, disturbance (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] drovinga1400 vexation1413 molestation1435 inquietation1461 inquieting1527 hershipc1540 pesterment1593 gêne1787 harassment1893 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile interference molestc1390 vexationa1425 molestation1435 molesting1523 molestance1642 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > harassment baiting1303 cumbrance1377 persecutiona1382 pursuita1387 aggrievancea1400 vexing?a1425 molestation1435 stroublance1439 inquietation1461 distrouble1483 infestance1490 encumberment1509 molesting1523 vexationa1525 inquieting1527 inquietance1531 molestie1532 infestationc1540 moiling1565 plaguing1566 pesterment1593 commacerating1599 molestance1642 harass1667 harassing1689 harassment1753 aggrievement1778 badgering1785 pesteration1802 bedevilment1844 worrying1848 tail-twisting1887 bloodhounding1891 aggravation1902 static1923 crap1935 hassle1969 monstering1979 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 1435 Rolls of Parl. IV. 489/2 Ye seid William to be quite and discharged of ye seide brekyng of prison, withoute any arest or empeschement, molestation or grevaunce. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1599 (MED) Wee have no nede to dout[e] werr, ne molestacioun. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. ii. 28 With this regrate our hartis sterit to petie, All molestatioun cessit and lattin be. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 28 Neyther his person, nor none of his countrey should receyve anye molestation of him. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 2 There are some of the Plates (vnto my great molestatione and sorrowe) lost. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Asa Also molestation, lazines, or anxiety of mind. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 16 I neuer did, like molestation [1623 mollestation] view, On the inchafed flood. View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westm. 239 Such his hazarding his person, (really worth ten thousand of them) to the great molestation of his true friends. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i. 10 You are..to move your Suit to Miranda..without Lett or Molestation. 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers Pref. b 2 The People called Quakers at length obtained Liberty to perform their publick Worship without Molestation. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xxii. 324 He arrived in a few weeks without receiving any molestation by the way. 1828 Night Watch I. vi. 72 The sentinel..promising to protect him from further molestation during the watch, he slept soundly till the morning. 1837 E. B. Barrett Lett. to M. R. Mitford (1983) I. 58 I cannot bear to think of the fatigue & molestation which seem so much to oppress you. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 97 He would be safe from Roman molestation. 1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 35/2 That one man..made overtures that if Simon ‘coughed up the cash’ he might continue to operate without molestation. 1991 A. Kemp SAS at War (BNC) 71 The trip took four days but there was no further molestation from the air. b. Originally U.S. Sexual assault or abuse; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > indecent assault indecent assault1861 sexual assault1883 sexual interference1932 molestation1945 interference1968 1945 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 14 204 Case 7 deals with violation of the Mann Act (wife prostitution) and case 8 with rape (molestation of female children). 1956 Pacific Reporter 290 250/1 Such offense [sc. indecent exposure] was punishable under either Code section relating to molestation of children. 1977 Washington Post 30 Jan. c2/1 Child molestation and exploitation, including prostitution, pornography, sex perversion and the furnishing of narcotics, are extensive in this city. 1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 5/1 Statistically, most of the harm that befalls children is at the hands of their parents and other family members: rapes, molestations, beatings [etc.]. 3. An instance of molesting or being molested; a trouble, an annoyance. Also concrete: a cause of annoyance. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation thornc1230 dreicha1275 painc1375 cumbrance1377 diseasec1386 a hair in one's necka1450 molestationc1460 incommodity?a1475 melancholya1475 ensoigne1477 annoyance1502 traik1513 incommode1518 corsie1548 eyesore1548 fashery1558 cross1573 spite1577 corrosive1578 wasp1588 cumber1589 infliction1590 gall1591 distaste1602 plague1604 rub1642 disaccommodation1645 disgust1654 annoyment1659 bogle1663 rubber1699 noyancea1715 chagrins1716 ruffle1718 fasha1796 nuisance1814 vex1815 drag1857 bugbear1880 nark1918 pain in the neck (also arse, bum, etc.)1933 sod1940 chizz1953 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1101 (MED) For a molestacioune Ther was noon othir remedy but a consolacioune. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 129 Ther cometh of glotonye..ryottes, wronges, and molestacyons. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 359 Such greefes and molestations as they otherwyse receaue. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 62 I wil withdraw me selfe from al molestations and perplexities. 1601 T. Wright Passions of Minde iv. 29 If the inferior appetite or passions obay & concurre with the will..they take away the molestations and tediousnesse that occurreth in the practise of good woorkes. 1629 J. Cole Of Death 93 The molestations of trade, or worldly affaires. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxii. 213 All the molestations of Marriage are abundantly recompenced with other comforts. 1700 C. Mather in R. Calef More Wonders Invisible World i. 10 The terrible and sensible molestations of Evil Angels. 1760–1 C. Lennox Ladies Museum I. 367 The greatest dangers, or the most sudden molestations, to which the Britons were at this time liable, proceeded solely from their neighbours the Caledonians. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 14 What..are the senses, but five yawning inlets to hourly and momentary molestations? 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. xxv. 269 The man who was as great a molestation to vicious citizens..as to a corrupt clergy. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iv. Comm. 638 There took place, by prearrangement, a molestation of one of the litigants. 1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 34/1 Sitting on that wall at two in the morning, the cold and damp on you like a molestation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1416
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