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Webster 1913 Edition
Complaint
1.
Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
I poured out my
complaint
before him. Ps. cxlii. 2.
Grievous
complaints
of you. Shakespeare
2.
Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the
complaint
of all who wish well to the church. Swift.
3.
An ailment or disease of the body.
One in a
complaint
of his bowels. Arbuthnot.
Syn. – Lamentation; murmuring; sorrow; grief; disease; illness; disorder; malady; ailment.
Webster 1828 Edition
Complaint
COMPLAINT
,Noun.
1.
Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; a finding fault.Even to day is my complaint bitter. Job 23.
2.
The cause or subject of complaint, or murmuring.The poverty of the clergy hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church.
3.
The cause of complaint, or of pain and uneasiness in the body; a malady; a disease; usually applied to disorders not violent; as a complaint in the bowels or breast.4.
Accusation; a charge against an offender, made by a private person or informer to a justice of the peace or other proper officer, alleging that the offender has violated the law, and claiming the penalty due to the prosecutor. It differs from an information, which is the prosecution of an offender by the Attorney or Solicitor General; and from a presentment and indictment, which are the accusation of a Grand Jury.5.
Representation of injuries, in a general sense; and appropriately, in a writ of Audita Querela.Definition 2024
complaint
complaint
English
Noun
complaint (plural complaints)
- A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining.
- I have no complaints about the quality of his work, but I don't enjoy his company.
- (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted. - (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant. - A consumer complaint.
- A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
- Don't come too close, I've got this nasty complaint.
Translations
preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another
a grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining
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a bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder