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Grieving   /grˈivɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Grieving  adj.  Sad; sorrowful; causing grief.


verb
Grieve  v. t.  (past & past part. grieved; pres. part. grieving)  
1.
To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God." "The maidens grieved themselves at my concern."
2.
To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. (R.)


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."


noun
Grieving  n.  The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved.





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"Grieving" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship which called here. She must have been very glad to have got away, for our little commandant persecuted her all day long, and she evidently was grieving for her husband. Do you know, signors, if her husband ...
— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat
... with dismay, The gentle lady tuned her eyes away, Grieving that he such sacrifice should make, And kill his falcon for a woman's sake, Yet feeling in her heart a woman's pride, That nothing she could ask for was denied; Then took her leave, and passed out at the gate With footstep ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... ever-dwindling band on the pavement which was slippery with the gore of heroes—all this has been sung by a hundred minstrels, and need not here be repeated. We have only to do with the share Theodoric and his friends took in the fatal combat. Long the Amalungs stood utterly aloof from the fray, grieving sorely that so many of their friends on both sides were falling by one another's hands. For to the Nibelungs, as well as to Attila and the Huns, were they bound by the ties of guest-friendship, and in happier days Theodoric had ridden with Gunther and with Hagen, ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin
... help grieving over the fate of Oroboni while, at the same time, I indulged the soothing reflection that he was freed from all his sufferings, that they were rewarded with a better world, and that in the midst of the enjoyments he had won, he must have ...
— My Ten Years' Imprisonment • Silvio Pellico
... there is no such commandment, that I can see, to women who are old enough to be grandmothers themselves. It does make me perfectly miserable to have everything questioned and talked over that I do; but I know I ought not to say such things. I suppose I shall lie awake half the night grieving over it. You know I have the greatest respect for mother's judgment; I'm sure I don't know what in the world I ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett


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