grievious

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡɹiː.viː.əs/

Adjective

grievious (comparative more grievious, superlative most grievious)

  1. (nonstandard outside dialectal) 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; [...]
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