What is "aggrieve"

Usage examples of "aggrieve".

I cannot recollect now, and could not render into English were I to recall them, should, upon complaint of the person aggrieved, and upon proof of the offence by the evidence of worthy and truth-speaking witnesses, be amerced in such penalty, not exceeding a certain sum, as in the estimation of the presiding magistrate should be held to be a proper compensation for the injury to his reputation suffered by the plaintiff.

The best he gave to Becco and Corvinus, on the grounds that they would have the most riding to do, and he was still explaining his reasons to an aggrieved Corax when Musa reappeared to announce that the castellum aquae was deserted.

Ginger began to explain in that aggrieved National Public Radio hostess voice she employed when she was obliged, yet again, to set them all straight on still another nuanced and intricate aspect of the case she was constructing.

The forehead gave proof of brains, and yet the San Reve was one more apt to act than think, particularly if she felt herself aggrieved.

It came to pass that when Wylo was not tracing his favourite seascape he was either flirting or engaged in the squally pastime of fighting an aggrieved husband or scandalised lover.

Schtitt still personally oversees the daily drill-assignments and can, if aggrieved, have Thode and deLint make them extremely uncomfortable more or less at will, out there in A.

Therefore was he much aggrieved at having so much abridged the lessons by giving it at Azay, seeing that he would have been quite willing to recommence it, like all of precentors who say the same thing over and over again to their pupils.

This was said in such a pathetic, aggrieved tone, that Bernardine laughed and looked at her companion.

He felt personally aggrieved and unconsciously held his muttonhead companion responsible for it.

Dom case the Volksraad passed a resolution disabling the aggrieved individual from taking action against the Government.

Land was now not so plentiful as it had been in 1850, when this policy had been inaugurated, and the farmers were naturally aggrieved that the railroads should own so much desirable land and should either hold it for speculative purposes or demand for it prices much higher than the Government had asked for land adjacent to it and no less valuable.

The truth is said to be that when Sir Leicester came down to Lincolnshire for good, Mr. Boythorn showed a manifest desire to abandon his right of way and do whatever Sir Leicester would, which Sir Leicester, conceiving to be a condescension to his illness or misfortune, took in such high dudgeon, and was so magnificently aggrieved by, that Mr.

Sometimes, it is said, they pretended to be foreign pirates, and plundered vessels and settlements, while the aggrieved parties could get no redress at Boston.

Even now, exhausted and aggrieved, Baden could feel himself shouldering old burdens once more.

And he arrived at Dunburh most aggrieved to be there, even admitting that he had also tried to have the betrothal broken.