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Definition of Grievances
1. grievance [n] - See also: grievance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grievances
Literary usage of Grievances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The peace propositions of the Swedish plenipotentiaries demanded that all mutual
grievances between the Catholic and Protestant Estates should be entirely ..."
2. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"... and there, in the King's presence, he read a lecture upon the necessity of
giving supply precedence over grievances ; but the Commons were obstinate, ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1831)
"Discontents in Belgium—Union of the Liberals and the Catholic Priests—Petitions
to the States General against grievances—The States General refuse the ..."
4. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by Ecole littéraire de Montréal, Charles Gill, William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"There were grievances existing in certain aspects of the Church system, ...
There were men, too, who had been instruments and promoters of those grievances. ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to by Henry Hallam (1876)
"This being a recapitulation of all the grievances and ... in whi .h the several
grievances might be recited, which coin mittee had never brought any report ..."
6. The World's Famous Orations. by Francis Whiting Halsey, William Jennings Bryan (1906)
"PYM ON grievances IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.1 (1640) Born in 1584, died in 1643 ;
entered Parliament in 1621; one of the managers of Buckingham's ..."
7. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament by Great Britain Parliament (1902)
"Petition of Kahi Bakhsh, for redress of grievances; to lie upon the Table.
EDUCATION (ENGLAND AND WALES) BILL. Petitions against : From Newcastle- on-Tyne; ..."
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