Word Meanings - AGRIEF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In grief; amiss. Chaucer.

AMISSIBILITY
The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
GRIEFFUL
Full of grief or sorrow. Sackvingle.
AMISSION
Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne.
GRIEFLESS
Without grief. Huloet.
AMISSIBLE
Liable to be lost.
GRIEF
gravis heavy; akin to Gr. , Skr. guru, Goth. karus. Cf. Barometer, 1. Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.;
AMISS
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at'
AGRIEF
In grief; amiss. Chaucer.
HEARTGRIEF
Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
EXTRAMISSION
A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
INAMISSIBLE
Incapable of being lost. Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n.