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pesterous
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Etymology
Adjective
pesterous (comparative more pesterous, superlative most pesterous)
- (obsolete) Inclined to pester; vexatious; burdensome.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- […] the dislike the Parliament had of gaoling of them, as that which was chargeable, pesterous, and of no open example.
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