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Grievous   /grˈivəs/   Listen
adjective
Grievous  adj.  
1.
Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. "The famine was grievous in the land." "The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight."
2.
Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
3.
Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.





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... the vision seemed to blind and dazzle Catherine. In its supernal light, things grievous to be understood and borne were now made clear. For the first time in all her life, the woman saw, and knew, and grasped the truths of this strange nexus of conflict, pain and sorrow, that we know as ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... may impose on the public.. Although the fear of potential competition will prevent the maintenance of an indefinitely high price it will not necessarily prevent such a rise of price as will yield enormous profits, and form a grievous burden on consumers. For a strongly-constituted Trust will be able to crush any competing combination of ordinary size and strength by a temporary lowering of its prices below the margin of profitable production, the weapon which a strong rich company can always ...
— Problems of Poverty • John A. Hobson
... forth loud peals of laughter or prolonged yells, of which no one understood the meaning. Bands of young men fought in the streets and danced in rounds in the squares, as if manifesting some secret hope of pleasure and some insensate joy, grievous ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... succeeded; and from their virtue in taking any opportunity to persecute any Of his relations; in which even the public interest of their country can weigh nothing, when clashing with their malice. The King of Sar dinia has written the strongest letter imaginable to complain of the grievous prejudice the Admiralty has don@his affairs ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... grievous ingratitude, King Lear, was turned out into the snow and hail by his wicked daughters; and the white-haired old king wandered through the blackness of the night beneath the falling hail. And, lo! the ...
— The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon • Newell Dwight Hillis


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