All 5 Uses of
grievance
in
Mansfield Park
- For a long while no answer could be obtained beyond a "no, no—not at all—no, thank you"; but he still persevered; and no sooner had he begun to revert to her own home, than her increased sobs explained to him where the grievance lay.†
Chpt 2
- Mrs. Norris could not speak with any temper of such grievances, nor of the quantity of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed in the house.†
Chpt 3 *
- These are something like grievances, and make me think the weather most unseasonably close.†
Chpt 22
- —soon led her mind away from Northamptonshire, and fixed it on her own domestic grievances, and the shocking character of all the Portsmouth servants, of whom she believed her own two were the very worst, engrossed her completely.†
Chpt 38
- Susan too was a grievance.†
Chpt 47
Definition:
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(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form