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Aggrieve v. t. (past & past part. aggrieved; pres. part. aggrieving) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. "Aggrieved by oppression and extortion."

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... A system twined with mutual suffering weave, When but a word all suffering would remove? And wherefore yet delayeth the reprieve Of Love, that doth not willingly afflict Its children, neither wantonly aggrieve? Can aught the gracious purpose interdict Of Him, whose piercing eye, whose boundless sway, No cloud can dim, no barrier restrict? Say'st thou, "By path inscrutable, and way Past finding out, perchance, may mercy bend To its own use, whate'er its ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

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Words linked to "Aggrieve" : jurisprudence, law, wrong, grieve, sorrow