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Grievance
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
2. Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. Milton.
Synonyms: Burden; oppression; hardship; trouble.