All 3 Uses of
grievance
in
The Two Towers
- Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him.†
Chpt 3.7grievance = complaint
- The friendship of Saruman and the power of Orthanc cannot be lightly thrown aside, whatever grievances, real or fancied, may lie behind.†
Chpt 3.10 *grievances = complaints
- You, and Master Samwise, too, I guess have some grievance.†
Chpt 4.5grievance = complaint
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.