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nuisance: Earliest occurrence in print is from around 1400 AD. "nuisance" Comes from Anglo-French nusancewhich in turn comes from old French nuisance.

The stem of the word comes from the Latin nocere "to hurt".

Our modern, softened sense of "annoyance" comes from the 19th century.

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