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Definition of Noyous
1. a. Annoying; disagreeable.
Definition of Noyous
1. Adjective. (context: now rare archaic) Troublesome; harmful, injurious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Noyous
1. vexatious [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noyous
Literary usage of Noyous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Now only springs the shrilling crickets' din, And noyous fenny paddocks' bark,
far off: And night-fowl light, that follow warlike death, ..."
2. Clerkenwell & St. Luke's: Comprising the Borough of Finsbury by Geraldine Edith Mitton (1906)
"Many times in its history it had to be amended by statute by reason of its being "
very foul, full of pits and sloughs, very perilous and noyous. ..."
3. The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as by George Lillie Craik, Charles McFarlane (1839)
"This " common highway" is described in the preamble of the act as " very noyous
and foul, and in many places thereof very ..."
4. The Romans of Partenay, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as the Tale of Melusine by Couldrette, Walter William Skeat (1866)
"MC. ciou«s and noyous ... bat than "ny humour of blak coler is so noyous b«t if
it a-bounde and a-sende vp to be heed, ..."
5. The book of quinte essence or the fifth being by Frederick James Furnivall, Hermes, Trismegistus Hermes (1866)
"... and noyous ... than any humour of blak coler is so noyous bat if it а-bounde
and a-sende vp to be heed, ..."
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