Both Uses
grievance
in
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
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- I did want to know, but I hadn't thought of asking her, and I guessed she was making a grievance of it.†
Chpt 1.5 *grievance = complaint
- When asked if my mother had complained about my conduct, he said, "Yes," but that didn't mean much; almost all the inmates of the Home had grievances against their relatives.†
Chpt 2.3grievances = 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.