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Definition of 'grievious'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (chiefly|dialectal)
  • * 1822 , George Hay, The Sincere Christian Instructed in the Faith of Christ from the Written Word , page 131:
  • Would it be a grievious sin for two cousin-germans to marry, without such dispensation?
  • * 1899 , Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated , volume 2, page 444:
  • Reasonable apprehension of immediate danger of grievious bodily harm to his wife and children, then in the house of the accused, is a justification of shooting the deceased, [...]
  • * 1973 , Safiriyu Abiodun Adesanya, Laws of Matrimonial Causes , page 41:
  • Thus S.16 (1) (d) would apply if while H and W were happily married, H fought with S at a party and caused S grievious bodily harm and H was imprisoned; [...]