Word Meanings - GRIEVANCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.

Related words: (words related to GRIEVANCER)

• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• PETITIONARILY
  By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• GRANDNESS
  Grandeur. Wollaston.
• GRANDILOQUENCE
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
• GRANDILOQUOUS
  Grandiloquent.
• GRANDNEPHEW
  The grandson of one's brother or sister.
• PETITIONEE
  A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
• GRANDEE
  A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• AGGRIEVANCE
  Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.