Usage examples (36)

• His vexation was the greater, that, if his conjecture were correct, it would place him in a difficult position towards the Belmonts.
• Our labour is called the vexation of our heart (v. 22); it is to most a force upon themselves, so natural is it to us to love our ease.
• Stephen had understood that his father's "vexation" existed only as an instrument of correction in the hands of his mother.
• He considered that the High Court in CSR did not intend to narrow the test from that of "vexation" and "oppression", in the relevant sense.