01 n. Vexation; mortification.
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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.
Syn.
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 from 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.