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noyous - What does it mean?

Definition of 'noyous'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Troublesome; harmful, injurious.
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  • *:Faire lordes sayd she for goddes loue torne ageyne yf ye may / for ye be come vnto youre dethe / Nay they sayd we wille not torne ageyne / for he shalle helpe vs in whos seruyse we ben entred in / Thenne as they stode talkynge / there came knyghtes wel armed and bad hem yelde them or els to dye / that yeldyng sayd they shal be noyous to yow
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , Bk.I, Cn.V:
  • *:The false Duessa leauing noyous Night, / Returnd to stately pallace of dame Pride.