grievance

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Mrs. Morrissy did not yet commune with herself about it, but if her grievance was anonymous it was not unknown.

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  1. noun An actual or supposed circumstance regarded as just cause for complaint.
  2. noun A complaint or protestation based on such a circumstance. See Synonyms at injustice.
  3. noun Indignation or resentment stemming from a feeling of having been wronged.
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  • The staff do not have the same food as the boys, and this is a bitter grievance which is always aired when the boys complain (as they do about once every five or six weeks) about the diet. —  When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 13: 1941
  • [805] They did not pay them; their grievance was against bishops in England, and they saw no particular reason for relieving those prelates of their financial burdens. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri VIII - A.F. Pollard
  • After the grievance was appealed and denied, a licensed arbitrator was selected, John Alfano, of Biddeford. —  Maine News Updates - Central Maine Newspapers, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel
  • I understand that you are righteously indignant over the pastor's involvement in a some illegal building development 10 years ago and I am curious about what needs to happen to make you feel like your grievance has been addressed? —  The Register-Guard: RSS Feeds
  • And, as I've tried to stress in numerous posts over a long period of time, now, it's increasingly the state and what William T. Sherman in the comments to another post characterizes as the grievance industry-a formulation that many of you have expressed in one way or another, and that Eisenhower might have warned us about, had he lived to see its ascendancy. —  NickQueen.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English grevaunce, from Old French grevance, from grever, to harm; see grieve.

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  1. Early modern English also greevance; from Middle English grevaunce, grevance, from Old French grevance, grievance, grivance (= Provencal grevansa), injury, wrong, grievance, from grevant, injurious, oppressive, present participle of grever, grieve, afflict: see grieve.
 

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