grievous

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There the strong king gan him fight with Kay, and wounded Kay sorely in the strong fight, to the bare death—-grievous was the deed His knights there right carried him from the fight, with mickle strength through the fight they pierced.

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  1. adjective Causing grief, pain, or anguish: a grievous loss.
  2. adjective Serious or dire; grave: a grievous crime.

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  • There the strong king gan him fight with Kay, and wounded Kay sorely in the strong fight, to the bare death—-grievous was the deed His knights there right carried him from the fight, with mickle strength through the fight they pierced. —  Roman de Brut. English
  • Sonnac, after having lost a hundred and eighty of his knights, fought his way through with the loss of an eye The King had, in the meantime, crossed the canal, and grievous was his disappointment on finding that the Saracens were between him and his brother. —  Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
  • It would be a grievous waste Vernon is a claret man; and so is Horace De Craye. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • And that, Steve-o, is what we call a grievous moral error. —  HUMORLESSBITCH
  • "Most grievous, and in deed worse than in word." [ —  Plutarch's Morals
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  1. Anglo-Norman grevous, from grever, to harm, aggrieve, from Latin gravāre, to burden; see grieve.

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  1. from Middle English grevous, from Old French grevos, grevus, grevous = Spanish Portuguese Italian gravoso, grievous, from Middle Latin gravosus, also graviosus, equivalent to L. gravis, heavy, grievous: see grave and grief, n., grieve, v. Cf. gravous.
 

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