All 4 Uses
grievance
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- See, where he comes: so please you step aside;
I'll know his grievance or be much denied.†p. 16.7 * - See, where he comes: so please you step aside;
I'll know his grievance or be much denied.†p. 19.9 * - We talk here in the public haunt of men:
Either withdraw unto some private place,
And reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.†p. 124.1 - We talk here in the public haunt of men:
Either withdraw unto some private place,
And reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.†p. 117.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, in classic literature, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.