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Chagrin
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Vexation; mortification. I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. Richard Porson. Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope.
Synonyms: Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet. Chagrin, Vexation, Mortification. These words agree in the general sense of pain produced by untoward circumstances. Vexation is a feeling of disquietude or irritating uneasiness from numerous causes, such as losses, disappointments, etc. Mortification is a stronger word, and denotes that keen sense of pain which results fron wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. Chagrin is literally the cutting pain produced by the friction of Shagreen leather; in its figurative sense, it varies in meaning, denoting in its lower degrees simply a state of vexation, and its higher degrees the keenest sense of mortification. "Vexation arises chiefly fron our wishes and views being crossed: mortification, from our self-importance being hurt; chagrin, from a mixture of the two." Crabb.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To be vexed or annoyed. Fielding.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Chagrined. Dryden.