Word Meanings - GRIEVANCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.
Related words: (words related to GRIEVANCER)
- GRANDEUR
The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - GRANDEESHIP
The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
A grand mother. - GIVES
Fetters. - GRANDUNCLE
father's or mother's uncle. - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - GRANDIFIC
Making great. Bailey. - PETITIONARILY
By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne. - GRANDILOQUENT
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic. - GROUNDLESS
Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n. - GRANDNESS
Grandeur. Wollaston. - GRANDILOQUENCE
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray, - GRANDILOQUOUS
Grandiloquent. - GRANDNEPHEW
The grandson of one's brother or sister. - PETITIONEE
A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition. - GRANDEE
A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - AGGRIEVANCE
Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. - SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
The aggrandizement of one's self. - FOREGROUND
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.