[f. VEX v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb in various senses.
a. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 281. Þat is of no wexyng of þe fend, but of grace of God.
1530. Palsgr., 284/2. Vexyng or troublyng, conturbation.
1611. Cotgr., Inquietation, a disquieting,… vexing, molesting, troubling.
1617. Hieron, Wks., II. 263. It is a kind of vexing to him, that he cannot master it.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Ductor, I. i. § 2. The first is that which Nazianzen calls … accusations and vexings of a man when he is in misery.
