Word Meanings - AGGRIEVANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.

Related words: (words related to AGGRIEVANCE)

• HARDSHIP
  That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• GRIEVANCER
  One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.
• GRIEVANCE
  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
• INJURY
  Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired
• AGGRIEVANCE
  Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.