Vexation, 1) torment, affliction, suffering: “all thy --s were but my trials of thy love,” Tp. IV, 5. “your children were v. to your youth,” R3 IV, 4, 305.
2) any state of being troubled or afflicted in mind; a) agitation: “the fierce v. of a dream,” Mids. IV, 1, 74. b) disquiet, trouble, great uneasiness: “to appoint myself in this v.” Wint. I, 2, 326. “throw such changes of v. on it,” Oth. I, 1, 72. c) grief: “the deep v. of his inward soul,” Lucr. 1779. “it would be much v. to your age,” Gent. III, 1, 16. “v. almost stops my breath,” H6A IV, 3, 41. “those repeated --s of it,” Cymb. I, 6, 5. e) anger, mortification: “full of v. come I,” Mids. I, 1, 22. “you do me most insupportable v.” All's II, 3, 244. “give him deserved v.” Cor. III, 3, 140. “harm not yourself with your v.” Cymb. I, 1, 134.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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