[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The character of being vexatious.
1668. Bp. Hopkins, Sermons, Vanity (1685), 39. There is a fourfold vexatiousness in all worldly things.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.).
c. 1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem. (1856), 300. Amidst the vexatiousness of the most complicated case,… Monypenny sat … serenely.
a. 1859. De Quincey, in ‘H. A. Page,’ Life (1877), II. xvii. 54. The vexatiousness of writing letters.
