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Definition of Grievers
1. griever [n] - See also: griever
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grievers
Literary usage of Grievers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1829)
"Irregular grievers continuing together to the number of twelve or more, by the
space of half an hour after proclamation made, shall be adjudged felons, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... that we should not dwell too long upon our passions, to be desperately sad,
immoderate grievers, to let them tyrannize, there's indo- lentia; an, ..."
3. Publications (1848)
"Fourthly, although no soul-killers, nor soul-grievers, may be suffered in the
spiritual state, or kingdom of Christ, the church; yet he hath commanded that ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... and they that are professors of the things of God, and grievers of the spirit,
are condemned. Matthew 27. 19. What was that in Pilate's wife, ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... that we should not dwell too long upon our passions, to be desperately sad,
immoderate grievers, to let them tyrannize, there's indo- ..."
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