Meanings
adjectivegreevous (comparative more greevous, superlative most greevous)
comparative more greevous · superlative most greevous
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of grievous.
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If any therefore demand, which is now most perfection, to ease an extremity by divorce, or to enrage and fester it by the greevous observance of a miserable wedloc, I am not destitute to say which is most perfection (although som who beleev they thinke favourably of divorce, esteem it only venial to informity)
1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon
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