Definition of Grievous

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Grievous

Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.

Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.

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Grievous Quotations

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Anthony Trollope

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
Orson Pratt

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
Mary Ritter Beard

Grievous Translations

grievous in Norwegian is alvorlig
grievous in Spanish is doloroso

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