Both Uses
grievance
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- I'll know his grievance or be much denied.†
p. 19.9 *grievance = complaint
- Either withdraw unto some private place,
Or reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart.†p. 117.9grievances = 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) More rarely, in classic literature, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.