All 3 Uses of
grievance
in
Emma
- Had it taken place only once a year, it would have been a grievance.†
Chpt 1.3-4 *
- Tell your aunt, little Emma, that she ought to set you a better example than to be renewing old grievances, and that if she were not wrong before, she is now.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet's welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.†
Chpt 3.17-18
Definition:
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(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form