All 5 Uses of
grievous
in
Oedipus the King
- Children were born to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon the city.†
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- CREON Friends, countrymen, I learn King Oedipus Hath laid against me a most grievous charge, And come to you protesting.†
- But other grievous things he prophesied, Woes, lamentations, mourning, portents dire; To wit I should defile my mother's bed And raise up seed too loathsome to behold, And slay the father from whose loins I sprang.†
- CHORUS Grievous enough for all our tears and groans Our past calamities; what canst thou add?†
- OEDIPUS I must obey, Though 'tis grievous.†
Definition:
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(grievous) very serious; or very bad; or causing grief