All 5 Uses of
grievous
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- His pride in his own sin, his loveless awe of God, told him that his offence was too grievous to be atoned for in whole or in part by a false homage to the All-seeing and All-knowing.†
Chpt 3
- And if, as may so happen, there be at this moment in these benches any poor soul who has had the unutterable misfortune to lose God's holy grace and to fall into grievous sin, I fervently trust and pray that this retreat may be the turning point in the life of that soul.†
Chpt 3
- Men, reasoning always as men, are astonished that God should mete out an everlasting and infinite punishment in the fires of hell for a single grievous sin.†
Chpt 3
- At the words MY MOST GRIEVOUS FAULT he ceased, breathless.†
Chpt 3 *
- During all those years he had never heard from any of his masters a flippant word: it was they who had taught him christian doctrine and urged him to live a good life and, when he had fallen into grievous sin, it was they who had led him back to grace.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(grievous) very serious; or very bad; or causing grief