annoyment
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]annoyment (countable and uncountable, plural annoyments) (archaic)
- (uncountable) Annoyance.
- (countable) Something annoying; a nuisance.
- Quoted in: 1837, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (volume 5, page 287)
- There can be no such disappointments or annoyments in planting trees.
- Quoted in: 1990, John Ruskin, Van Akin Burd, Christmas Story: John Ruskin's Venetian Letters of 1876-1877 (page 104)
- […] his fury with Italy's neglect of her works of art, his dismay with Kaiser and Cavalcaselle, the annoyments of his hotel, the difficulties of working in the gloom of the lower church, […]
- Quoted in: 1837, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (volume 5, page 287)