Both Uses of
grisly
in
The Pardoner's Tale
- Their oathes be so great and so damnable, That it is grisly* for to hear them swear.†
*
- And up they start, all drunken, in this rage, And forth they go towardes that village Of which the taverner had spoke beforn, And many a grisly* oathe have they sworn, *dreadful And Christe's blessed body they to-rent;* *tore to pieces <7> "Death shall be dead, if that we may him hent."†
Definition:
repellent or sickening -- frequently as with the uncensored depiction of gruesome death or injury