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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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"Grievous" Quotes from Famous Books



... good and lovely—to blaspheme the bands Of tenderness innate and social love, 250 Holiest of things! by which the general orb Of being, as by adamantine links, Was drawn to perfect union, and sustain'd From everlasting? Hast thou felt the pangs Of softening sorrow, of indignant zeal, So grievous to the soul, as thence to wish The ties of Nature broken from thy frame, That so thy selfish, unrelenting heart Might cease to mourn its lot, no longer then The wretched heir of evils not its own? 260 ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside
... me, dear child, if I am still in love with life. I must confess that I find its sorrows grievous, but my distaste for death is even stronger. It is sad to think I must finish my life with death, and if it were possible I would retrace my steps. I find myself embarked on life without my consent, and am in a perplexing ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various
... yoke. For there, across the lake, the Landenberg Wields the same iron rule as Gessler here— No fishing-boat comes over to our side, But brings the tidings of some new encroachment, Some fresh outrage, more grievous than the last. Then it were well, that some of you—true men— Men sound at heart, should secretly devise, How best to shake this hateful thraldom off. Full sure I am that God would not desert you, But lend His favour to the righteous cause. Has thou ...
— Wilhelm Tell - Title: William Tell • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
... but blackbird-hunting. It is said you should have evidence as to what blackbird-hunting meant. I think it is a grievous mistake to pretend to ignorance of things passing before our eyes everyday. We may know the meaning of slang words, though we do not use them. Is there not a wide distinction between blackbird-hunting and a legitimate labour-trade, if such a thing is to be ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... he would deal unfairly with me? His words rang so true—even a bad man may love honestly! And if I trifle with the one saving virtue in his heart, will it not be a grievous sin?" ...
— Margaret Tudor - A Romance of Old St. Augustine • Annie T. Colcock


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