All 11 Uses of
grave
in
Obasan
- Obasan moves her head slowly and gravely in a nod as she listens.
Chpt 15 *gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- He turns to the woman in blue and nods gravely, says a few words to the ojisan and to a missionary, then disappears into the crowd.†
Chpt 16
- She holds the basket in the palm of her hand and raises it above her head with mock gravity.†
Chpt 19
- There are half a dozen unknown men and a white clergyman standing beside a freshly covered grave.†
Chpt 32
- It wasn't at all a "fine and private place," that home beyond the grave.†
Chpt 35
- All this questioning, this clawing at her grave, is an unseemly thing.†
Chpt 35
- In all my high school days, until we heard from Sensei that her grave had been found in Tokyo, I pictured her trapped in Japan by government regulations, or by an ailing grandmother.†
Chpt 37
- I can hear Aunt Emily telling us about Mother's grave.†
Chpt 37
- …Committee on Japanese Canadians to the House and the Senate of Canada, April 1946 It is urgently submitted that the Orders-in-Council [for the deportation of Canadians of Japanese racial origin] are wrong and indefensible and constitute a grave threat to the rights and liberties of Canadian citizens, and that Parliament as guardian of these rights and the representative of the people, should assert its powers and require the Governor-in-Council to withdraw the Orders, for the following…
Chpt 39grave = serious and solemn
- The Congress of the United States has no power to exile citizens, and the British Parliament has not, even in the gravest emergency, found it necessary to assume such a power.†
Chpt 39
- The Orders cannot be enforced without grave injustice and inhumanity to innocent persons.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner