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engrieve
/ɪŋˈɡɹiːv/
verb 2
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4ADJ.
other, sorry
VERB + ENGRIEVE
am, lent
ENGRIEVE + NOUN
man's
PREP.
towards
Definitions
verb
1
To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.
If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.
Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve, either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.
2
To grieve.
Seeing his worke now wasted, deepe engrieved was
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If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in
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Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve, either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.
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1998, Annabel M. Patterson (editor), The trial of Nicholas Throckmorton (apparently derived from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577), I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a p
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