vesation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VESA'TION, noun [Latin vesatio.] 1. The act of irritating, or of troubling, disquieting and harassing. 2. State of being irritated or disturbed in mind. 3. Disquiet; agitation; great uneasiness. Passions too violent - afford us vexation and pain. 4. The cause of trouble or disquiet. Your children were vexation to your youth. 5. Afflictions; great troubles; severe judgments. The Lord shall send on thee cursing, vexation and rebuke. Deuteronomy 28:1. 6. A harassing by law. 7. A slight teasing trouble.
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