All 14 Uses
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Adam Bede
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- She's own niece to Poyser's wife, an' they'll be fine an' vexed at her for making a fool of herself i' that way.†
Chpt 2 *vexed = annoyed
- But now Dinah began to tell of the joys that were in store for the penitent, and to describe in her simple way the divine peace and love with which the soul of the believer is filled—how the sense of God's love turns poverty into riches and satisfies the soul so that no uneasy desire vexes it, no fear alarms it: how, at last, the very temptation to sin is extinguished, and heaven is begun upon earth, because no cloud passes between the soul and God, who is its eternal sun.†
Chpt 2vexes = annoys
- Haven't I got enough to vex me without that?†
Chpt 4
- I didn't mean to vex you.†
Chpt 12
- I wouldn't vex you for the world, you little blossom.†
Chpt 12
- Dinah said, "Will you let me come in, Hetty?" and Hetty, without speaking, for she was confused and vexed, opened the door wider and let her in.†
Chpt 15vexed = annoyed
- But he had no sooner gone a few paces beyond the door than Lisbeth became uneasy at the thought that she had vexed him.†
Chpt 20
- He could not gather what was vexing her, but it was impossible to him to feel otherwise than that she was the prettiest thing in the world, and that if he could have his way, nothing should ever vex her any more.†
Chpt 23vexing = annoying
- He could not gather what was vexing her, but it was impossible to him to feel otherwise than that she was the prettiest thing in the world, and that if he could have his way, nothing should ever vex her any more.†
Chpt 23
- She took it with an air of indifference and put it in her pocket, in her heart vexed and angry with Adam because he had seen it, but determined now that she would show no more signs of agitation.†
Chpt 26vexed = annoyed
- Be as kind to him as you can, Mother, and don't say anything to vex him.†
Chpt 30
- They were merely hysterical tears: she thought she had no reason for weeping now, and was vexed that she was too weak and tired to help it.†
Chpt 36vexed = annoyed
- He felt a little vexed, for his brother's sake, and he could not help thinking regretfully how Dinah, as Seth's wife, would have made their home as happy as it could be for them all—how she was the one being that would have soothed their mother's last days into peacefulness and rest.†
Chpt 50
- "What hast got i' thy mind, Mother?" said Adam, vexed at this whimpering.†
Chpt 51
Definitions:
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(1)
(vex) to annoy, worry, or frustrate -- especially by being difficult or persistent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)