All 4 Uses of
grievance
in
Middlemarch
- Yet Dorothea had no distinctly shapen grievance that she could state even to herself; and in the midst of her confused thought and passion, the mental act that was struggling forth into clearness was a self-accusing cry that her feeling of desolation was the fault of her own spiritual poverty.†
Chpt 2
- It was not in her nature to pour forth wishes or grievances.†
Chpt 4 *
- I thought it would always be part of my life to long for home, and losing that grievance makes me feel rather empty: I suppose it served instead of sense to fill up my mind?†
Chpt 4
- But his endurance was mingled with a self-discontent which, if we know how to be candid, we shall confess to make more than half our bitterness under grievances, wife or husband included.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form