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pesterous en · ADJ

Etymology

From pester + -ous.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Inclined to pester; vexatious; burdensome.
   • […] the dislike the Parliament had of gaoling of them, as that which was chargeable, pesterous, and of no open example. 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

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