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aggrieved, ppl. a.|əˈgriːvd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
†1. Oppressed or hurt in spirit; distressed, troubled, annoyed, vexed (with, at). Obs. replaced by grieved.
c1350Will. Palerne 266 Goþ til him swiþe · lest he agreved wex. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 345 A God ne sholde nat be thus agreved, But of hys deitee he shal be stable. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 77 He was gretely agreued with suche as helde the same opynyon. 1513Douglas æneis ii. xi. 111 Grete Goddis semand with Troy aggreuit. 1557Surrey æneid ii. (R.) And great gods eke aggreued with our town. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 561 Agreeued at, or ashamed of the thing that they haue done.
2. Injured or wronged in one's rights, relations, or position; injuriously affected by the action of any one; having cause of grief or offence, having a grievance (at, by).
1590Marlowe 1st Pt. Tambur. i. i. 1 Brother Cosroe, I find myself agrieved. 1643Milton Divorce (1851) ii. 25 The agrieved person shall doe more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in clayming the due right whereof he is frustrated. 1790Cowper Iliad i. 757 My mother, be advised, and though aggrieved Yet patient. 1859T. Lewin Invas. Brit. 61 The Britons were as much the aggrieved as the aggressive party. 1870Bowen Logic ix. 293 The Catholics had a right to feel aggrieved that these laws should be permitted to remain in the statute book.
†3. Injured physically; hurt, afflicted. Obs.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sprain, Rub and chafe it upon the aggrieved place. 1783P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. II. 278 What disorders the aggrieved part is naturally liable to.
†4. Aggravated, exaggerated. Obs.
1513More Richd. III, Wks. 1557, 62/1 Smal matters agreuid with heinouse names. 1559Myrroure for Mag., Gloc. xxi. 1 Aggreued was also this latter offence, With former matter. |