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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Grevous, Grewous, a. Also: greivous; grevos, -us; grewous(s)e, grewos, grew(i)s; grivous. [ME. grevos, -ous (c 1290), OF. grevos, -(o)us, -eus.] Grievous, in various senses.(1) 1375 Barb. x. 636.
For fra thine vp wes grevousar [E. grewouser] To clym vp ?1438 Alex. ii. 8964.
The battell hard & greuous was 1513 Doug. xii. v. 160.
Full grewos [Sm. grevus] grew the bargane in all stedisadv. 1375 Barb. xiii. 52.
The archeris … schot hard and richt grevous(2) ?1438 Alex. ii. 4751.
Greuous panes I saw ȝow dre 1456 Hay I. 9/18.
Sare tormentis and greuous a1500 Bk. Chess 10.
The grevous passioun malancholy 1567 G. Ball. 151.
Greuous is my sorrow 1622-6 Bisset II. 355/4.
Thow will cuir my grevous maladie(b) a1400 Leg. S. iii. 607.
Quhat thu has in thocht Of grewouse payne to torment me c1475 Wall. vi. 733.
Thai … Till men and hors gaiff mony grewous wound 1513 Doug. i. iv. 86.
Set his mynd trublit mony grewous thocht, … The dolorus payn hyd deip gravyn in hart Ib. xi. xv. 125.
A full deip wond and a grewos sayr(c) 1513 Doug. xii. xiv. 134.
The child Pallas, Quhilk … venquyst was … and with a grews [Sm. grevus] wond Slane in the feld(d) 15.. Clar. i. 1016.
Grivous woundis that war sore ȝaiking(3) a1400 Leg. S. ii. 497.
Na mane for grewous syne Sal disparit be pardone to wyne 1558-66 Knox II. 297.
Many grevouse offensis shall aryse 1596 Dalr. II. 227/9.
Our sin suirlie greiuouser wil be esteimet(4) c1420 Wynt. vii. 253.
Hys legys supprysand Be gret grewous exactyownys Ib. 2608.
Till Scotland dyspytuws He wes all tyme and grevus 1456 Hay II. 164/34.
Thare sall cum grevous mischeif and mysfortune 1490 Irland Mir. I. 113/32.
On hir laubour and hevy and greuous persuasioune agane mankind, I marwell gretlie 1531 Bell. Boece I. 110.
I mon, said he, suffer this … adversite … And yit na thing is sa grevous to me as Fortune 1567 G. Ball. 106.
Sic lyke persew thame with thy greuous ire 1596 Dalr. I. 101/12.
This pest albeit it be commoune to the hail realme and a greuous calamitie 1611 Edinb. Test. XLVI. 249 b.
Nocht to be farder burdeinabill or grivous to … his mother in law(5) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 274.
A grevous pleynt, makande him kende That scho was nocht into deynte Haldine ?1438 Alex. ii. 6845.
At … thare parting, Was maid mony greuous siching 1558-66 Knox I. 372.
Sche … exponed hir grevous complaint, aggredging the same with many lyes c1590 J. Stewart 43/3.
The grivous gronyngs and the sorrow sair Of Roland Ib. 66/37.
Ane troup of porcks … Vith grewous gruntling(6) 1513 Doug. x. iv. 55.
The cyte Grauyssa, Ful contagius of tempest and grews [Sm. grewis, R. greuous] ayr(7) 1581–2 Bk. Old Edinb. C. VI. 71.
Hie hes gevin … grevos injurieous wordis without cause 1603 Moysie 129.
The ministrie … geve out maist griuous and vnkouthe speiches againis the counsall
