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▪ I. vexing, vbl. n.|ˈvɛksɪŋ|
[f. vex v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb in various senses.
a1450Mirk's Festial 281 Þat is of no wexyng of þe fend, but of grace of God. 1530Palsgr. 284/2 Vexyng or troublyng, conturbation. 1611Cotgr., Inquietation, a disquieting,..vexing, molesting, troubling. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 263 It is a kind of vexing to him, that he cannot master it. 1660Jer. Taylor Ductor i. i. §2 The first is that which Nazianzen calls..accusations and vexings of a man when he is in misery.
▪ II. ˈvexing, ppl. a.
[f. vex v. + -ing2.]
That vexes; causing vexation.
a1586Sidney Psalms vi. vi, The while a swarm of foes with vexing feates My life besitteth. 1599Davies Immort. Soul xxii. vi. (1714) 79 Trembling Fear, and vexing Griefs annoy. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 28 Reckoning Impossibles not to concerne our Desires; nor Unavoydables our Feares; nor things past our Remedy, our vexing sorrow. 1684Leighton Comm. 1 Peter v. 8–9 The burden of vexing carefulness. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Vexatiousness, troublesome, perplexing, vexing Quality. 1762Kames Elem. Crit. xviii. (1833) 286 From this vexing dilemma I am happily relieved. 1815Scott Guy M. xlv, I am glad to see that this vexing job hasna taen awa your appetite, Captain. 191019th Cent. Feb. 279 Let others seek..the games and pleasures which bring with them a thousand vexing cares.
Hence ˈvexingly adv.
1635–56Cowley Davideis iv. 81 At Courts, and Seats of Justice to complain, Was to be robb'd more vexingly again. 1643J. Caryl Expos. Job I. 868 This they did so vexingly, that they are said to wrest his words. 1710Steele Tatler No. 269 ⁋5 It is the same poverty which makes men speak or write smuttily, that forces them to talk vexingly. |