Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Annoying; hurtful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Full of annoyance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Full of
annoyance .
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Examples
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And for to defend them he putteth himself against all things that he meeteth if it be noyful to them, and setteth them always between himself and the sun on the more secure side.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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And if rain be evil and distemperate in its qualities, and discording to place and time, it is grievous and noyful to many things.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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And contrariwise is of an unordinate voice and horrible, that gladdeth not, nother comforteth; but is noyful and discomforteth and grieveth the ears and the wit.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Omnibow were sitting one morning in the latter's cell, "when there entered upon them the emperor's great ambassador, accompanied with many gentlemen of Spain, and demanded of the Father how he durst be so bold to take upon him to intermeddle in so great and weighty a matter, the which did not only lessen and enervate the pope's authority, but was noyful and odious to all
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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