All 17 Uses of
grave
in
Romeo and Juliet
- By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets;
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Scene 1.1grave = serious
- Go ask his name: if he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.†
Scene 1.5
- Not in a grave To lay one in, another out to have.†
Scene 2.3
- No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.†
Scene 3.1
- Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel: Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, Doting like me, and like me banished, Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave.†
Scene 3.3
- What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?†
Scene 3.5
- I would the fool were married to her grave!†
Scene 3.5
- Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl, For here we need it not.
Scene 3.5 *gravity = wisdom (weighty words)
- …From off the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.†
Scene 4.1
- Sir, go you in,—and, madam, go with him;— And go, Sir Paris;—every one prepare To follow this fair corse unto her grave: The heavens do lower upon you for some ill; Move them no more by crossing their high will.†
Scene 4.5
- — Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.†
Scene 5.1
- Which with sweet water nightly I will dew; Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans: The obsequies that I for thee will keep, Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.†
Scene 5.3
- I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;— A grave?†
Scene 5.3
- I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;— A grave?†
Scene 5.3
- O thou untaught! what manners is in this, To press before thy father to a grave?†
Scene 5.3
- Then gave I her, so tutored by my art, A sleeping potion; which so took effect As I intended, for it wrought on her The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo That he should hither come as this dire night, To help to take her from her borrow'd grave, Being the time the potion's force should cease.†
Scene 5.3
- He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave; And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb; And by-and-by my master drew on him; And then I ran away to call the watch.†
Scene 5.3
Definition:
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(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner