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Webster 1913 Edition

Grievance

Griev′ance

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Noun.
[OF.
grevance
. See
Grieve
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
2.
Grieving; grief; affliction.
Syn. – Burden; oppression; hardship; trouble.

Webster 1828 Edition

Grievance

GRIE'VANCE

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Noun.
[from grief.] That which causes grief or uneasiness; that which burdens, oppresses or injures, implying a sense of wrong done, or a continued injury, and therefore applied only to the effects of human conduct; never to providential evils. The oppressed subject has the right to petition for a redress of grievances.

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