Grievousness
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Grievousness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
GRIE'VOUSNESS, n. Oppressiveness; weight that gives pain or distress; as the grievousness of a burden.
1. Pain; affliction; calamity; distress; as the grievousness of sickness, war or famine.
2. Greatness; enormity; atrociousness; as the grievousness of sin or offenses.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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