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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

Oppressiveness; weight that gives pain or distress; as the grievousness of a burden.

Pain; affliction; calamity; distress; as the grievousness of sickness, war or famine.

Greatness; enormity; atrociousness; as the grievousness of sin or offenses.

grievousness ‎(plural grievousnesses)

the quality or state of being grievous