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annoyment en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Proto-Italic *odjom Latin odium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin inodiāre Old French enoiierbor. Middle English anoyen English annoy Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English annoyment From annoy + -ment.

Meanings

1. (archaic, uncountable) Annoyance.
2. (archaic, countable) Something annoying; a nuisance.
   • […] 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: 1990, John Ruskin, Van Akin Burd, Christmas Story: John Ruskin's Venetian Letters of 1876-1877 (page 104)
   • There can be no such disappointments or annoyments in planting trees. Quoted in: 1837, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (volume 5, page 287)

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