vext
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[edit]Verb
[edit]vext
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of vex
- 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King:
- 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 King:
- 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 [...]
- 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Holy Grail”, 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.