a. Lamentable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. grevance. See Grieve, v. t. ]
The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. Milton.
n. One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.
v. t.
Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]
The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over. [ 1913 Webster ]
Do not you grieve at this. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, grieves. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. --
a. [ OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See Grief. ]
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 ]