01 a. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
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Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.“The famine was grievous in the land.” — Gen. xii. 10.“The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.” — Gen. xxi. 11.
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Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
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Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.