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grievousness|ˈgriːvəsnɪs|
[f. grievous a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being grievous, in various senses of the adj.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 719 Þyn oþys done hym more greuesnesse Þan alle þe Iewys wykkednesse. c1340Hampole Prose Tr. (1866) 3 This name Ihesu..dose away greuesnes of fleschely desyris. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 322 Of þe greuousnes of þe rigboon whanne he is out of ioyncte. c1440Promp. Parv. 211/1 Grevawnce, or grevowsnesse, gravamen. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xi. xxxvii, A gentyll burden wythout grevousnes. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 254 b, Also the greuousnesse of this payne saynt Augustyn toucheth. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 45 b, The apples of thys [Mandrage]..smell plesantly ioyned wth a certayn greuousnes. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. viii. ix. §3 For the grievousness of sin is aggravated by the greatness of him that committeth it. 1611Bible Isa. xxi. 15 The grieuousnesse of warre. 1682Norris Hierocles 48 We first alleviate the grievousness of Events by right reasoning. a1864J. D Burns Serm. in Mem. & Rem. (1869) 387 Affliction..would lose all the grievousness and smart which make affliction. |