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Definition
very serious; or very bad; or causing grief
- But when this small apparatus of shallow quickness was fetched away in the gig by Luke, and the study was once more quite lonely for Tom, he missed her grievously.2.1 -- Book 2 Chapter 1 -- Tom's "First Half" (93% in)
- It is but little thou sufferest in comparison of them that have suffered so much, were so strongly tempted, so grievously afflicted, so many ways tried and exercised.4.3 -- Book 4 Chapter 3 -- A Voice from the Past (61% in)
There are no more uses of "grievous" in The Mill on the Floss.
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