grievious
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[edit]grievious (comparative more grievious, superlative most grievious)
- (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; [...]