vext

Definitions

simple past and past participle of vex

archaic, form-of, participle, past

Examples

“She was vext and angry, God wot: "What hast thou here in the grove to do? Little business, I trow, thou hast got."”

“What happiness to reign a lonely king, Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me, O earth that soundest hollow under me, Vext with waste⟳ dreams?”

“And that same night, the night of the new year, By reason⟳ of the bitterness and grief That vext his mother, all before his time Was Arthur born [...]”

“[...] and thence Taking my war-horse from the holy man, Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.”

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