grievance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiː.vəns/
rhymes: -iːvəns
Forms: form: grievances
form: grievaunce
Etymology: From Old French grievance, from the verb grever (“to irritate; to bother; to annoy”) + -ance, equivalent to grieve + -ance.
Senses: synonyms: word: hardship
word: sorrow
word: affliction
word: aggrievance
word: distress
word: grief
word: grievance
word: hardship
word: misery
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: undelight
word: vexation
word: woe
word: wrong
glosses: Something which causes grief.
examples: text: [T]he King is vveary / Of daintie and ſuch picking greeuances, / For he hath found, to end one doubt by death, / Reuiues tvvo greater in the heires of life: […]
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signature G, verso:
text: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
Wayne Rooney spent much of the game remonstrating with Oliver about his own grievances and, in the interest of balance, there were certainly occasions when United had legitimate complaints.
text: Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
examples: text: The issues of harassment and/or bullying was the top common source of grievance, followed by discipline, and then new working practices.
ref: 2005, John Gennard, Graham Judge, Employee Relations, →ISBN, page 303:
text: Given the non-significance of grievance in the estimated results, I proceeded to check whether the data provide a systematic and rational explanation of personal grievance among the population.
ref: 2007, Aderoju Oyefusi, Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria:
text: The left half of the equation draws on grievance while the liberal half is sustained by guilt, and as such they enjoy a symbiotic relationship: the more grievance the left can generate, the more guilt the liberal will feel, and the more guilt the liberal feels, the more grievance the left are able to generate.
ref: 2008, Andrew Anthony, The Fallout: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Warfare is a condition in which there is more greed and more grievance, more deterrence and more defiance.
ref: 2010, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, Michael Cookson, Anomie and Violence, →ISBN:
glosses: Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger.
synonyms: word: bother
word: vexation
word: annoyance
word: bother
word: faff
word: grievance
word: hassle
word: inconvenience
word: irritation
word: nuisance
word: palaver
word: peeve
word: plague
word: trouble
word: vexation
glosses: A complaint or annoyance.
examples: text: If you want the problem fixed, you'll have to file a grievance with the city.
qualifier: human resources
glosses: A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.
examples: text: Indeed I do confess, that many times I have showed myself both less provident and less paiful for the benefit of the commonwealth, tha I should, or might, or intended to do hereafter; and have in many actions more respected the satisfying of my own particular humour, than either justice to some private persons, or the common good of all ; yet I did not at any time either omit duty or commit grievance, upon natural dulness or set malice; but partly by abuse of corrupt counsellors, partly by error of my youthful judgement.
ref: 1652, Sir Robert Cotton, Sir John Hayward, The Histories of the Lives and Raignes of Henry the III. and Henry the IIII Kings of England, page 188:
text: The like, 'de mot en wot,' to the barons, bailiffs, men and entire community of the port of Sanwich and its members with 'conclusion' ordering them, on their faith and loyalty, to cause the truce to be firmly observed in all its points, and forbidding them and each of them, under pain of forfeiture of life and limb and of all that they can forfeit, to commit grievance, damage, wrong or molestation by land or by sea, openly or secretly, upon any merchant or other of whatsoever estate or condition he may be of the realm of France or of the other lands of the king of France.
ref: 1970, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward I. A.D. 1272-[1307]:
text: Interim work rules, that served as bridge between expired and future contract between city and firefighters' association, did not commit grievance regarding firefighters' entitlement to step wage increases to arbitration.
ref: 1999, South Western Reporter (Second Series), page 71:
glosses: Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior.
Synonyms: gravamen
Derived terms: grievance collecting
grievance collection
grievance collector
grievancer
grievance studies
pregrievance
racial grievance industry