释义 |
vexatiousness|vɛkˈseɪʃəsnɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] The character of being vexatious.
1668Bp. Hopkins Sermons, Vanity (1685) 39 There is a fourfold vexatiousness in all worldly things. 1727Bailey (vol. II). c1825Ld. Cockburn Mem. (1856) 300 Amidst the vexatiousness of the most complicated case,..Monypenny sat..serenely. a1859De Quincey in ‘H. A. Page’ Life (1877) II. xvii. 54 The vexatiousness of writing letters. |