Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old plural of
grief .
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- noun Plural form of
greeve .
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We can haz cellybrayshuns togedder and greeves and memorees togedder.
Don looks Mr. Fuzzybottoms!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Yet in truth, it is verie defectious in the circumstaunces, which greeves mee, because it might not remaine as an exact moddell of all Tragidies.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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So, likewise, in Rowland's _Night Raven_, 1620, a scrivener, who has his cloak and hat stolen from him, exclaims, "I will not cry, _Hamlet, revenge_ my greeves."
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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