Both Uses of
grievance
in
Romeo and Juliet
- See, where he comes: so please you step aside;
I'll know his grievance or be much denied.†p. 16.7 *grievance = complaint
- 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. 124.1grievances = complaints
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, in classic literature, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.