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† ˈnoisance Obs.
Forms: 5–6 noysaunce, 5, 7 -ance, 5 -ans, 6 -auns, 6– noisance; also 5 nosaunce, -awnce.
[a. OF. noisance, var. of nuisance nuisance.]
1. Trouble, molestation, annoyance.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 112 Þe konyng þat þe sawle folowys..whenne it ys deliured of noysance. c1450Lovelich Merlin 2256 To hym maden they here Surawnce him there to bryngen with-owten Nosawnce. c1450Merlin 456 Yef ye take eny [men] of owres, thei shull helpe yow to oure noysaunce. a1500Chaucer's Dreame C.'s Wks. (1598) 357 Without sicknes or displeasaunce, Or thing that to you was noysaunce. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 71 b, Those that shall bryng vitailes necessarie to the saied assembly, maie without daunger, trouble, impechement or noysaunce go and come. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 63 Howbeit much noisance they have everywhere by Wolves. 1656Prynne Resol. Import. Queries 21 A Writ is granted..for a thing done to the noysance of another.
b. In phr. to do noisance.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 810 To me this longe walke it dothe noisance. 1449in Wars Eng. in France (Rolls) I. 489 Robbeurs and pirates..whiche dayly do alle the noysance thay canne. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 46 b, The mayre..declared to them the noysaunce done to the Citezens.
2. Nuisance.
1473–4Sarum Church-w. Accts. (1896) 15 For the clansyng of a noysance abowte the church. 1657Howell Londinop. 392 Any thing of noisance in the River of Thames. |