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单词 gravamen
释义 gravamen|grəˈveɪmɛn|
Pl. gravamina |grəˈveɪmɪnə|.
[a. late L. gravāmen a physical inconvenience, in med.L. a grievance, f. gravāre to load, f. gravis heavy, grave a.]
1. A grievance.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 58 Is your Advisera such a Suavamen to you, that hath been such a Gravamen to Religion and Peace.1708S. Sewall Diary 9 Feb. (1879) II. 216 [We] found this to our Comfort..which was a gravamen for many years.1857Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 24 Charles gave Hagano the higher room..The real gravamen, however, appears to have been Hagano's affectionate though rough fidelity.
2.
a. A formal complaint or accusation. Obs.
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. Ep. Ded. 38 It is not safe..to extend the gravamen and punishment beyond the instances the Apostles make.1774S. Hallifax Roman Civ. Law (1775) 126 In an Appeal, whether from a Gravamen or the Sentence, an Inhibition is issued from the Superior Court to the Inferior, to stop Proceedings.1880Lit. World 30 July 65/2 A gravamen brought forward by the Diet in opposition to the royal demands.
b. Eccl. A memorial presented by the Lower House of Convocation to the Upper representing the existence of disorders or grievances in the church.
1602Archpriest Controv. (Camden) II. 13 They willed vs to bring our probations for the Grauamina we had put up against the Archpriest.1869Daily News 18 June, Archdeacon Hale presented a gravamen characterising the measure now before Parliament in very strong terms.1889John Bull 2 Mar. 145/3 Archdeacon Denison's gravamen just presented to Convocation is a most doleful document.1899Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 9/1 The Prolocutor thought the Archdeacon was travelling beyond the words of the gravamen.
3. The particular part of an accusation that bears most heavily on the person accused.
1832McCheyne in Mem. i. (1844) 12 It constitutes the very gravamen of the charge against the unrenewed man that he has affection for his earthly parent..but none for God!1839Brougham Sk. Statesmen, Ld. Mansfield Ser. i. 115 The great gravamen, too, of these charges against him is his leaning towards the Americans.1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 151 The gravamen of the charge against the principle of utility seems to lie in a word.1887Lowell Democr. 19 The real gravamen of the charge lies in the habit it has of making itself generally disagreeable.
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