English

Adjective

grievious ‎(comparative more grievious, superlative most grievious)

1. (nonstandard outside dialects) Alternative form of grievous
   • 1822, George Hay, The Sincere Christian Instructed in the Faith of Christ from the Written Word, page 131:

     Would it be a grievious sin for two cousin-germans to marry, without such dispensation?

   • 1899, Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated, volume 2, page 444:

     Reasonable apprehension of immediate danger of grievious bodily harm to his wife and children, then in the house of the accused, is a justification of shooting the deceased, [...]

   • 1973, Safiriyu Abiodun Adesanya, Laws of Matrimonial Causes, page 41:

     Thus S.16 (1) (d) would apply if while H and W were happily married, H fought with S at a party and caused S grievious bodily harm and H was imprisoned; [...]