Both Uses
grievance
in
A Thousand Acres
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- The county is full of old grievances like that.†
p. 35.1 *grievances = complaints
- I had forgotten in my own recitation his old grievances against Harold and his mother.†
p. 196.4
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) More rarely, in classic literature, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.