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grievousness
Variant of grievous
adjective
- causing grief
- showing or characterized by grief: a grievous cry
- causing suffering; hard to bear; severe: grievous pain
- very serious; deplorable: a grievous fault
- atrocious; heinous: a grievous crime
Related Forms:
- grievously adverb
- grievousness noun
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