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noun

Annoyance n.

The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. "A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers." "For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies."

That which annoys. "A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense."

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Etymology of 'Annoyance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Annoyance" Quotes from Famous Books

... the great affliction that oppresses us? Besides, we cannot have cares, and anxieties, and toil, without hope—if it be but the hope of fulfilling our joyless task, accomplishing some needful project, or escaping some further annoyance. At any rate, I was glad my mother had so much employment for every faculty of her action-loving frame. Our kind neighbours lamented that she, once so exalted in wealth and station, should be reduced to such extremity in her time of sorrow; ...

— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte

... spoke of the pleasure it would give her to see him, she said that she would like to see him walk into the studio. But when he took her at her word and she saw him draw aside the curtain and look in, a cloud of annoyance gathered on her face. But she easily assumed her ...

— Celibates • George Moore

... and for the briefest instant a frown of disappointment and annoyance knit her pretty brows. Then she glanced again at the worn face of the girl who sat opposite to her; the steadfast eyes looked down, the long, thin, beautifully cut fingers trembled as Frances played idly with ...

— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade

... the same year, we find Maestro Jorba once more at Milan, working for Duchess Beatrice, much to the annoyance of her sister Isabella, who was anxious to secure the services of the skilful embroiderer, and offered him a salary of two hundred ducats a year if he would settle at Mantua. Jorba, however, seems to have preferred to remain at Ferrara, and only paid occasional visits ...

— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright

... had perhaps been the cause of his arriving too late at Consul Garman's death-bed. The extraordinary figure dressed in the long light-brown coat, which kept ever and anon bowing to him, did not tend to calm his feelings, and it is possible that something of his annoyance showed itself in the words which he now ...

— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland

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