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grievance
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In general, grievance (from class. lat. gravis : heavy) is a wrong or hardship suffered, real or supposed, which forms legitimate grounds of complaint . In the past, the word meant oppressive state of things.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) Something which causes grief. 2 A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "state of being aggrieved," from Old French grevance "harm, injury, misfortune, trouble, suffering," from grever "to harm, to burden" (see grieve ). In reference to a cause of such a condition, from late 15c.
Usage examples of grievance.
To prevent such a consummation, in conclusion, he urged the necessity of redressing the grievances, and of adopting some remedy to the deplorable distresses under which the Irish people were groaning.
At last he had given his grievance an airing, and compared with his previous treatment rude letters, curt telephone calls, and ignored requests for information smooth evasions were a decided improvement.
Jefferson Davis, his earnest championship of universal amnesty, and his expressed sympathy with the grievances of the old ruling element of the slave States, had created a kindly impression in that section.
These boons were offset, however, by a new delegation summoning Becket and the king again to arbitrament of their grievances, and setting Ascension Day as the term of papal leniency.
Obviously an atheling should be better mounted than his thegn, although by then he knew enough not to put his grievance in those terms.
Wellington Bunn seemed always to have a grievance because he had not made a success in Shakespeare.
However, John of Salisbury relates that Louis, who had not ceased to cherish the queen with an almost boyish ardor, was surprised, chagrined, and terribly upset by the outpouring of her grievances, and at once took measures to resist her purposes.
I proceeded to explain the grievance of the young dancer, and I read the agreement he had made with her, telling him politely that I could easily force him to fulfil it.
We hear not of any frauds discovered, or of defaulters punished, or of grievances redressed.
The minds of the Americans had been chafed to such a degree by their original grievances, and the measures which had been adopted to enforce their quiescence, that they became every day more and more disaffected toward the English government.
As he reviewed the conversation of the evening, he wondered which were really the more dangerous to the state, Emmet, full of personal grievances and undigested theories, or his opponent, Judge Swigart, the cynical and aristocratic politician.
But the only way of mitigating factiousness and misunderstanding is by means of some machinery of mutual consultation, which may help to remedy grievances and whose decision shall determine the political action taken in the name of the whole community.
Miss Giggs, that the Warden has your grievance in hand, and it and the offender will be dealt with.
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances.
Merit Service Board and toss a grenade into the civil service grievance system and show you some hardball of my own.