greevous

English

Adjective

greevous (comparative more greevous, superlative most greevous)

  1. Obsolete spelling of grievous
    • 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon:
      If any therefore demand, which is now most perfection, to ease an extremity by divorce, or to enrage and fester it by the greevous observance of a miserable wedloc, I am not destitute to say which is most perfection (although som who beleev they thinke favourably of divorce, esteem it only venial to informity)
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