English

Adjective

grevious ‎(comparative more grevious, superlative most grevious)

1. (nonstandard outside dialects) Alternative spelling of grievous
   • 1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics:

     Then there was a rich man in the mount of Carmel that hight Nabal, and on a time he sheared and clipped his sheep, to whom David sent certain men, and bade them say that David greeted him well, and whereas aforetimes his shepherds kept his sheep in desert, he never was grevious to them, ne they lost not much as a sheep as long as they were with us, and that he might ask his servants for they could tell, and that he would now in their need send them what it pleased him.

   • 1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:

     There is found the keynote of the grevious native government in an incident of the date of 1841 by which "the foreign relations of the government became involved with the schemes of a private firm.

   • 1869, Atticus, Our Churches and Chapels:

     Their reading is accurate, their time good, and their melody frequently constitutes a treat which would do a power of good to those who hear the vocalisation of many ordinary psalm-singers whose great object through life is to kill old tunes and inflict grevious bodily harm upon new ones.