Grieve, v. i. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an
evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.
Do not you grieve at this.
Shak.
Griev"er (?), n. One who, or that which, grieves.
Griev"ing, a. Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. -- n. The act of causing
grief; the state of being grieved. -- Griev"ing*ly, adv. Shak.
Griev"ous (?), a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See Grief.] 1.
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.
2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious;
as, a grievous sin. Gen. xviii. 20.
3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction;
as, a grievous cry. -- Griev"ous*ly, adv. -- Griev"ous*ness, n.