Grievousness

Grievousness
Grievous Griev"ous, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See {Grief}.] 1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. [1913 Webster]

The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii. 10. [1913 Webster]

The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. --Gen. xxi. 11. [1913 Webster]

2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20. [1913 Webster]

3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Griev"ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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