• Grievious

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ɡɹiː.viː.É™s/

    Full definition of grievious

    Adjective

    grievious

    1. (chiefly dialectal) Alternative form of grievous
      • 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; ...
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