How do you pronounce grievious?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɹiː.viː.əs/.

grievious

/ˈɡɹiː.viː.əs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Would it be a grievious sin for two cousin-germans to marry, without such dispensation?"
"Reasonable apprehension of immediate danger of grievious bodily harm to his wife and children, then in the house of the accused, is a justification of shooting the deceased, [...]"
"Thus S.16 (1) (d) would apply if while H and W were happily married, H fought with S at a party and caused S grievious bodily harm and H was imprisoned; [...]"

more grievious (comparative) most grievious (superlative)

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