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She suffered grievous bodily harm.grievous = very serious; or very bad
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It is a grievous offense against morality.
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It is a grievous crime.
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It was a grievous loss.
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Better sent home, grievously injured, than remain here sir! (source)grievously = badly (seriously)
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For she has found out by art magical that this would hinder my deliverance from the grievous enchantment I lie under. (source)grievous = very bad; or causing grief
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But Sam was now sorrowful at heart, and it seemed to him that if the parting would be bitter, more grievous still would be the long road home alone. (source)grievous = terrible (causing grief)
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But, oh, they have handled ye grievously, my Brothers! (source)grievously = badly (in a manner that causes grief)
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Till then I will win fame, and will bid Trojan and Dardanian women wring tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands in the grievousness of their great sorrow; thus shall they know that he who has held aloof so long will hold aloof no longer.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up. (source)grievous = very bad
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At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.† (source)
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10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!† (source)
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What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!† (source)grievous = very serious; or very bad
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Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offence he had committed inadvertently?† (source)
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21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.† (source)
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"The little birds sing a grievous song today," he said as he seated himself.† (source)
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