annoyance (anoians)

[ Formidable means of annoyance. Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 2. The state of being annoyed; a feeling of trouble, vexation, or anger, occasioned by unwelcome or injurious acts or events. A carele step leading to accident, or some bungling manipulation, causes self-condemnation with its accompanying feeling of annoyance though no one is by. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., § 517. 3. That which annoys, troubles, or molests. A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense! Shak., K. John, iv. 1. The... exercise of industry... tempereth all annoy Barrow, Sermons, III. xix. ances. Jury of annoyance, a jury appointed to report upon public nuisances. N. E. D. [Eng.]=Syn. 1. Molestation, vexation.-2. Discomfort, plague.