| Definitions | | vext |
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verb
- (archaic) (simple past of, vex)
- Quotations
- What happiness to reign a lonely king,<br>Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me,<br>O earth that soundest hollow under me,<br>Vext with waste dreams?<br>— Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Coming of Arthur"
- And that same night, the night of the new year,<br>By reason of the bitterness and grief<br>That his mother, all before his time<br>Was Arthur born ...<br>— Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Coming of Arthur"
- ... and thence<br>Taking my war-horse from the holy man,<br>Glad that no phantom me more, return'd<br>To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.<br>— Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "Holy Grail"
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