Meanings
- archaicparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of vex
She was vext and angry, God wot: "What hast thou here in the grove to do? Little business, I trow, thou hast got."
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 1663 more examples
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?
1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the KingAnd 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 [...]
1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King[...] 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.
1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King
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