Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See
{Grief}.]
1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to
bear; offensive; harmful.

The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii.
10.

The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
--Gen. xxi.
11.

2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated;
flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20.

3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or
affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adv. --
{Griev"ous*ness}, n.