Obs. Also 5–6 ennoye. [Variant of ANNOY sb. (q.v.)] A troubled state of mind, grief, vexation; also concr. a cause of trouble.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), II. 272 a/1. That other heuynesse that corrupteth the soule … tholde faders called it ennoye or greuaunce.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, Contents Bk. 3. The secund buik schawis the finale ennoy The great mischeif, and subversioun of Troye. Ibid., XI. iv. 54. I mycht haue ȝald this saule full of ennoy.
