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Definition
the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form
- When we reached England, Samuel and I presented the Olinka's grievances to the bishop of the English branch of our church, a youngish man wearing spectacles who sat thumbing through a stack of Samuel's yearly reports.
There are no more uses of "grievance" in The Color Purple.
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