All 4 Uses of
grievance
in
Lonesome Dove
- Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money.†
Chpt 1-2 *grievance = complaint
- "Call, if you want better food you have to start by shooting Bolivar," Augustus said, reminded of his own grievance against the cook.†
Chpt 1-2
- He had gone down to the saloon to get an ax someone had borrowed and not returned, and while he was getting the ax he heard a young woman crying out words and grievances to someone who was with her in her room.†
Chpt 11-12grievances = complaints
- He began to feel more and more of a grievance against more and more people.†
Chpt 36-37grievance = 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.