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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
grieve .
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Examples
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I say shocked, because I am not certain whether or not the word grieved would apply accurately.
The Message 1912
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The "forty years" joined in the Hebrew and Septuagint, and below, Heb 3: 17, with "I was grieved," is here joined with "they saw."
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He knew he had by his sin grieved the Spirit and provoked him to with draw, and that because he also was flesh God might justly have said that his Spirit should no more strive with him nor work upon him, Gen. vi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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I saw a group on Facebook and was once again grieved.
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It is the Holy Ghost himself that is here intended, not immediately, in respect of his person (in which regard he is said to be grieved, which is a personal affection); but in respect of his motions, actings, and operations.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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BRISTOL: People that had this outpouring of sympathy to us and our family for losing her because I think they felt, knowing Christa, seeing Christa, I think they kind of grieved along with us that knowing what a great loss it was.
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Perhaps that explains why he felt "grieved" of late.
Naive? Hateful? Planted like a solid oak tree against the winds of perversion? Ann Althouse 2006
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BRISTOL: People that had this outpouring of sympathy to us and our family for losing her because I think they felt, knowing Christa, seeing Christa, I think they kind of grieved along with us that knowing what a great loss it was.
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Even for me to say this in these terms opens me to the same charge – I am 'grieved' by the failings of others.
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Even for me to say this in these terms opens me to the same charge – I am 'grieved' by the failings of others.
brobbins commented on the word grieved
to refrain, one refrains from
July 22, 2009