All 5 Uses
grievous
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: E.P. Coleridge)
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- And she hates her children now and feels no joy at seeing them; I fear she may contrive some untoward scheme; for her mood is dangerous nor will she brook her cruel treatment; full well I know her, and I much do dread that she will plunge the keen sword through their hearts, stealing without a word into the chamber where their marriage couch is spread, or else that she will slay the prince and bridegroom too, and so find some calamity still more grievous than the present; for dreadful is her wrath; verily the man that doth incur her hate will have no easy task to raise o'er her a song of triumph.†
grievous = very serious; or very bad
- loudly, bitterly she calls on the traitor of her marriage bed, her perfidious spouse; by grievous wrongs oppressed she invokes Themis, bride of Zeus, witness of oaths, who brought her unto Hellas, the land that fronts the strand of Asia, o'er the sea by night through ocean's boundless gate.†
- Next I caused the death of Pelias by a doom most grievous, even by his own children's hand, beguiling them of all their fear.†
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- So there they lie, daughter and aged sire, dead side by side, a grievous sight that calls for tears.†
- For grievous unto mortal men are pollutions that come of kindred blood poured on the earth, woes to suit each crime hurled from heaven on the murderer's house.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(grievous) very serious; or very bad; or causing grief
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)