单词 | grievance |
释义 | grievancen.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun] > as inflicted wrongc1275 derea1325 grievancec1386 resentment1683 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harm or injury > [noun] > cause of foea1200 wothea1300 grievancec1386 resentment1683 wound1715 c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋520 If..a man of gretter myght and strengthe than thou art do thee grevaunce, studie and bisye thee rather to stille the same grevaunce, than for to venge thee. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 34 The bodely delices alle..Unto the soule done grevaunce. a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 27823 Couatyse es ane euil syn þat mikel greuance gers bygin. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 211/1 Grevawn [c] e, or offence, or trespace, offensa, aggra[va]men. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxxvi. 427 The frenchmen kepte good company with their prisoners, and raunsomed them courtesly, without any greuaunce to them. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5034 And all giltes [ben] for-gyffen & greuans of old. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Song Three Children 27 The fire touched them not at al, nor payned them, nor did them anie grevance. 1641 Protests Lords I. 4 To the great and universal grievance of your people. 1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 190 To the much grievance and oppression of the people. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxii. 159 The Wife with-held, the Treasure ill detain'd, (Cause of the War, and Grievance of the Land) With honourable Justice to restore. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. vii. 244 If the consequence of that exertion be manifestly to the grievance or dishonour of the kingdom. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 127 Happy people! that..sport away the weights of grievance, which bow down the spirit of other nations. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] sorec888 teeneOE sorrowOE workOE wrakeOE careOE gramec1000 harmOE howc1000 trayOE woweOE angec1175 derfnessc1175 sytec1175 unwinc1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 derf?c1225 grief?c1225 misease?c1225 misliking?c1225 ofthinkingc1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 pinec1275 distress1297 grievancea1300 penancea1300 cumbermentc1300 languorc1300 cumbering1303 were1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 woea1325 painc1330 tribulationc1330 illa1340 threst1340 constraintc1374 troublenessc1380 afflictiona1382 bruisinga1382 miseasetya1382 pressurec1384 exercisec1386 miscomfortc1390 mislikea1400 smarta1400 thronga1400 balec1400 painfulnessc1400 troublancec1400 smartness?c1425 painliness1435 perplexity?a1439 penalty?1462 calamity1490 penality1496 cumber?a1513 sussy1513 tribule1513 afflict?1529 vexation of spirit1535 troublesomeness1561 hoe1567 grievedness1571 tribulance1575 languishment1576 thrall1578 tine1590 languorment1593 aggrievedness1594 obturbation1623 afflictedness1646 erumny1657 pathos1684 shock1705 dree1791 vex1815 wrungnessa1875 dukkha1886 thinkache1892 sufferation1976 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction teeneOE harmOE sourc1000 trayOE angec1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 misease?c1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 sorenessc1275 grievancea1300 cumbermentc1300 cumbering1303 thro1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 encumbrancec1330 tribulationc1330 threst1340 mischiefa1375 pressc1375 unhend1377 miseasetya1382 angernessc1390 molestc1390 troublancec1400 notea1425 miseasenessc1450 cumber?a1513 tribule1513 unseasonableness?1523 troublesomeness1561 tribulance1575 tine1590 trials and tribulations1591 pressure1648 difficulty1667 hell to pay1758 dree1791 trial and tribulation1792 Queer Street1811 Sturm und Drang1857 a thin time1924 shit1929 crap1932 shtook1936 a1300 Cursor Mundi 23083 In mi greuance yee did me gode. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2753 Þai sal haf a day þare Als mykel bitter payn or mare, Als a man mught thole here of penaunce A yhere and fele als mykel grevaunce. a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 2027 He..tolde hem alle his greuance. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 233 Aurelius Hadde loued hir best of any creature..But neuere dorste he tellen hir his greuance. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1065 Povert hathe in hym self ynow grevaunce, Withouten that that man hym more purchace. 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (1898) 196 Clothis, wodde, and colle..by the wych he myght escape wythout empeyrement the grevaunce of the wyntyr. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 28 Sex hundreth yeris and od Haue I..Liffyd with grete grevance. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxi. 16 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 214 The Moony vapors Shall not cast any mist to breed thy greuaunce. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 154 See where he is..Ile know his grieuance, or be much denied. View more context for this quotation 3. A circumstance or state of things which is felt to be oppressive. In modern use, a wrong or hardship (real or supposed) which is considered a legitimate ground of complaint; something to complain of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > ground of complaint lastOE plainta1382 aggrievance1389 griefc1420 grievance1481 condemnation1534 complaint1732 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. viii. 147 The fruytes..ben other~while sonner rype in one yere than in an other, and more assured of tempestes and other greuances. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. lxxv. 106 Future ill On present suffrings, bruted to aryse, That farther grieuances ingender will. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iii. 37 Madam, I pitty much your grieuances . View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης v. 44 They undid nothing in the State but irregular and grinding Courts, the maine greevances to be remov'd. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vii. 173 The hundred Grievances of the German Nation proposed to the Popes Legate. 1688 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 226 As to ye Request of ye Assembly for Relief of Grievances. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 356 The War is a general Greivance upon the people. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 16 One Day meeting me on the Green near the Fort, he stopt me to relate his Grievances. 1795 E. Burke Let. 18 May (1969) VIII. 246 It is a foolish Language, adopted from the united Irishmen, that their Grievances originate from England. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 42 They sent to the King a statement of their grievances. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 124 In an early state of society any kind of taxation is apt to be looked on as a grievance. 1882 A. W. Ward Dickens v. 112 The length of Chancery suits was a real public grievance. 1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 367 On being troubled by a pertinacious clergyman with many grievances. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] soreOE cothec1000 sicknessc1000 evilc1275 maladyc1275 grievance1377 passiona1382 infirmityc1384 mischiefa1387 affectiona1398 grievinga1398 grief1398 sicka1400 case?a1425 plaguec1425 diseasea1475 alteration1533 craze1534 uncome1538 impediment1542 affliction?1555 ailment1606 disaster1614 garget1615 morbus1630 ail1648 disaffect1683 disorder1690 illness1692 trouble1726 complaint1727 skookum1838 claim1898 itis1909 bug1918 wog1925 crud1932 bot1937 lurgy1947 Korean haemorrhagic fever1951 nadger1956 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 61 Sapience..swelleth a mannes soule, Ac grace is a grasse therof The greuaunces to abate. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 32 Þai schuld neuer hafe swilke greuaunce ne disese of þam mare. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. xxiv. 84 Al be it she hath no greuaunce, yet hath she displesaunce. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. v. 11 Ulcers and grievances of the mouth. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. iii. 9 Many that have come infirme out of England, retaine their old grievances still. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 279 The Bath surgeon..declared it as his opinion, that the complaint might be removed without amputation, adding, that it was owing to wrong management that the grievance had gone so far. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] unthankc893 ofthinkingc1225 displeasancec1340 grievancec1380 offencec1390 griefa1400 ill liking?a1400 mislikinga1400 displacencec1450 displeasure1484 displeasantness1547 discontentment1550 displeasedness1561 discontent1579 displicence1593 aggrievedness1594 disconceitc1598 distasture1611 displicency1640 disobligation1645 displacencya1652 affront1705 disobligement18.. unpleasure1814 misloving1871 unwill1872 displeasurement1882 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 258 Charlys was in his greuance stondyng among his feren. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 126 I prai the tak to no grevance This kene karping of syr Kay. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 10757 Grace dieu..Wych ys, sothly, evele apayd, And taketh gretly in greuaunce The maner off thy governaunce. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1257 Yet sum there be therewith take grevaunce, And grudge thereat with frownyng countenaunce. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. grievance-monger. ΚΠ 1828 Toronto Pub. Lib. MS. B 104 41 Like William Lyon Mackenzie, he was a confirmed grievance-monger. 1860 Sat. Rev. 9 304/2 They are the men who..hold grievance-meetings about the parson's surplice. 1890 Spectator 2 Aug. 141/2 The grievance-mongers will gather together. 1896 Tablet 9 May 751 Those spoilt children of the State..are very busy just now in grievance-making. 1966 Economist 12 Nov. 647/2 Mrs Gandhi's government and party can hardly be considered blameless. What they have to do to meet the real grievances that the grievance-mongers exploit is, simply, to succeed. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun] > one who does offender?a1425 wrongerc1449 griever1598 injurer1611 grievancer1655 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful person > [noun] > causing grievance grievancer1655 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. xvii. §4 ⁋12 Now no day passed, wherein some petition was not presented..against the Bishops as grand grievancers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1300 |
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