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单词 grievance
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grievancen.

/ˈɡriːvəns/
Forms: Middle English–1500s grevaunce, (Middle English grevawnce, grevons), Middle English–1600s grevance, (Middle English grevans(e, 1600s greevance), 1500s– grievance.
Etymology: < Old French grevance, grievance, < grever to harm, grieve n.: see -ance suffix.
1. The infliction of wrong or hardship on a person; injury, oppression; a cause or source of injury. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun] > as inflicted
wrongc1275
derea1325
grievancec1386
resentment1683
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harm or injury > [noun] > cause of
foea1200
wothea1300
grievancec1386
resentment1683
wound1715
c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋520 If..a man of gretter myght and strengthe than thou art do thee grevaunce, studie and bisye thee rather to stille the same grevaunce, than for to venge thee.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 34 The bodely delices alle..Unto the soule done grevaunce.
a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 27823 Couatyse es ane euil syn þat mikel greuance gers bygin.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 211/1 Grevawn [c] e, or offence, or trespace, offensa, aggra[va]men.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxxvi. 427 The frenchmen kepte good company with their prisoners, and raunsomed them courtesly, without any greuaunce to them.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5034 And all giltes [ben] for-gyffen & greuans of old.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Song Three Children 27 The fire touched them not at al, nor payned them, nor did them anie grevance.
1641 Protests Lords I. 4 To the great and universal grievance of your people.
1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 190 To the much grievance and oppression of the people.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxii. 159 The Wife with-held, the Treasure ill detain'd, (Cause of the War, and Grievance of the Land) With honourable Justice to restore.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. vii. 244 If the consequence of that exertion be manifestly to the grievance or dishonour of the kingdom.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 127 Happy people! that..sport away the weights of grievance, which bow down the spirit of other nations.
2. The state or fact of being oppressed, injured, or distressed; trouble, distress; suffering, pain. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun]
sorec888
teeneOE
sorrowOE
workOE
wrakeOE
careOE
gramec1000
harmOE
howc1000
trayOE
woweOE
angec1175
derfnessc1175
sytec1175
unwinc1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
derf?c1225
grief?c1225
misease?c1225
misliking?c1225
ofthinkingc1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
pinec1275
distress1297
grievancea1300
penancea1300
cumbermentc1300
languorc1300
cumbering1303
were1303
angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
woea1325
painc1330
tribulationc1330
illa1340
threst1340
constraintc1374
troublenessc1380
afflictiona1382
bruisinga1382
miseasetya1382
pressurec1384
exercisec1386
miscomfortc1390
mislikea1400
smarta1400
thronga1400
balec1400
painfulnessc1400
troublancec1400
smartness?c1425
painliness1435
perplexity?a1439
penalty?1462
calamity1490
penality1496
cumber?a1513
sussy1513
tribule1513
afflict?1529
vexation of spirit1535
troublesomeness1561
hoe1567
grievedness1571
tribulance1575
languishment1576
thrall1578
tine1590
languorment1593
aggrievedness1594
obturbation1623
afflictedness1646
erumny1657
pathos1684
shock1705
dree1791
vex1815
wrungnessa1875
dukkha1886
thinkache1892
sufferation1976
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction
teeneOE
harmOE
sourc1000
trayOE
angec1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
misease?c1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
sorenessc1275
grievancea1300
cumbermentc1300
cumbering1303
thro1303
angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
encumbrancec1330
tribulationc1330
threst1340
mischiefa1375
pressc1375
unhend1377
miseasetya1382
angernessc1390
molestc1390
troublancec1400
notea1425
miseasenessc1450
cumber?a1513
tribule1513
unseasonableness?1523
troublesomeness1561
tribulance1575
tine1590
trials and tribulations1591
pressure1648
difficulty1667
hell to pay1758
dree1791
trial and tribulation1792
Queer Street1811
Sturm und Drang1857
a thin time1924
shit1929
crap1932
shtook1936
a1300 Cursor Mundi 23083 In mi greuance yee did me gode.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2753 Þai sal haf a day þare Als mykel bitter payn or mare, Als a man mught thole here of penaunce A yhere and fele als mykel grevaunce.
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 2027 He..tolde hem alle his greuance.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 233 Aurelius Hadde loued hir best of any creature..But neuere dorste he tellen hir his greuance.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1065 Povert hathe in hym self ynow grevaunce, Withouten that that man hym more purchace.
1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (1898) 196 Clothis, wodde, and colle..by the wych he myght escape wythout empeyrement the grevaunce of the wyntyr.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 28 Sex hundreth yeris and od Haue I..Liffyd with grete grevance.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxi. 16 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 214 The Moony vapors Shall not cast any mist to breed thy greuaunce.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 154 See where he is..Ile know his grieuance, or be much denied. View more context for this quotation
3. A circumstance or state of things which is felt to be oppressive. In modern use, a wrong or hardship (real or supposed) which is considered a legitimate ground of complaint; something to complain of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > ground of complaint
lastOE
plainta1382
aggrievance1389
griefc1420
grievance1481
condemnation1534
complaint1732
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. viii. 147 The fruytes..ben other~while sonner rype in one yere than in an other, and more assured of tempestes and other greuances.
1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. lxxv. 106 Future ill On present suffrings, bruted to aryse, That farther grieuances ingender will.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iii. 37 Madam, I pitty much your grieuances . View more context for this quotation
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης v. 44 They undid nothing in the State but irregular and grinding Courts, the maine greevances to be remov'd.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vii. 173 The hundred Grievances of the German Nation proposed to the Popes Legate.
1688 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 226 As to ye Request of ye Assembly for Relief of Grievances.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 356 The War is a general Greivance upon the people.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 16 One Day meeting me on the Green near the Fort, he stopt me to relate his Grievances.
1795 E. Burke Let. 18 May (1969) VIII. 246 It is a foolish Language, adopted from the united Irishmen, that their Grievances originate from England.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 42 They sent to the King a statement of their grievances.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 124 In an early state of society any kind of taxation is apt to be looked on as a grievance.
1882 A. W. Ward Dickens v. 112 The length of Chancery suits was a real public grievance.
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 367 On being troubled by a pertinacious clergyman with many grievances.
4. A disease, ailment, hurt. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]
soreOE
cothec1000
sicknessc1000
evilc1275
maladyc1275
grievance1377
passiona1382
infirmityc1384
mischiefa1387
affectiona1398
grievinga1398
grief1398
sicka1400
case?a1425
plaguec1425
diseasea1475
alteration1533
craze1534
uncome1538
impediment1542
affliction?1555
ailment1606
disaster1614
garget1615
morbus1630
ail1648
disaffect1683
disorder1690
illness1692
trouble1726
complaint1727
skookum1838
claim1898
itis1909
bug1918
wog1925
crud1932
bot1937
lurgy1947
Korean haemorrhagic fever1951
nadger1956
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 61 Sapience..swelleth a mannes soule, Ac grace is a grasse therof The greuaunces to abate.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 32 Þai schuld neuer hafe swilke greuaunce ne disese of þam mare.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. xxiv. 84 Al be it she hath no greuaunce, yet hath she displesaunce.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. v. 11 Ulcers and grievances of the mouth.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. iii. 9 Many that have come infirme out of England, retaine their old grievances still.
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 279 The Bath surgeon..declared it as his opinion, that the complaint might be removed without amputation, adding, that it was owing to wrong management that the grievance had gone so far.
5. Displeasure, indignation, offence. to take in or to grievance, to take grievance with: to take offence at. Obsolete. (Cf. grief n. 4b.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun]
unthankc893
ofthinkingc1225
displeasancec1340
grievancec1380
offencec1390
griefa1400
ill liking?a1400
mislikinga1400
displacencec1450
displeasure1484
displeasantness1547
discontentment1550
displeasedness1561
discontent1579
displicence1593
aggrievedness1594
disconceitc1598
distasture1611
displicency1640
disobligation1645
displacencya1652
affront1705
disobligement18..
unpleasure1814
misloving1871
unwill1872
displeasurement1882
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 258 Charlys was in his greuance stondyng among his feren.
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 126 I prai the tak to no grevance This kene karping of syr Kay.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 10757 Grace dieu..Wych ys, sothly, evele apayd, And taketh gretly in greuaunce The maner off thy governaunce.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1257 Yet sum there be therewith take grevaunce, And grudge thereat with frownyng countenaunce.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations. grievance-monger.
ΚΠ
1828 Toronto Pub. Lib. MS. B 104 41 Like William Lyon Mackenzie, he was a confirmed grievance-monger.
1860 Sat. Rev. 9 304/2 They are the men who..hold grievance-meetings about the parson's surplice.
1890 Spectator 2 Aug. 141/2 The grievance-mongers will gather together.
1896 Tablet 9 May 751 Those spoilt children of the State..are very busy just now in grievance-making.
1966 Economist 12 Nov. 647/2 Mrs Gandhi's government and party can hardly be considered blameless. What they have to do to meet the real grievances that the grievance-mongers exploit is, simply, to succeed.

Derivatives

ˈgrievancer n. Obsolete one who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun] > one who does
offender?a1425
wrongerc1449
griever1598
injurer1611
grievancer1655
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful person > [noun] > causing grievance
grievancer1655
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. xvii. §4 ⁋12 Now no day passed, wherein some petition was not presented..against the Bishops as grand grievancers.
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