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GRIEVING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sorrowful through loss or deprivation
Example:
bereft of hope
Synonyms:
bereaved; bereft; grief-stricken; grieving; mourning; sorrowing
Classified under:
Similar:
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb grieve
Context examples:
Once only, when she had been grieving over the last ill-judged, ill-fated walk to the Cobb, bitterly lamenting that it ever had been thought of, he burst forth, as if wholly overcome—"Don't talk of it, don't talk of it," he cried.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But her condemnation of him did not blind her to the impropriety of their having been written at all; and she was silently grieving over the imprudence which had hazarded such unsolicited proofs of tenderness, not warranted by anything preceding, and most severely condemned by the event, when Marianne, perceiving that she had finished the letters, observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Lady Russell, convinced that Anne would not be allowed to be of any use, or any importance, in the choice of the house which they were going to secure, was very unwilling to have her hurried away so soon, and wanted to make it possible for her to stay behind till she might convey her to Bath herself after Christmas; but having engagements of her own which must take her from Kellynch for several weeks, she was unable to give the full invitation she wished, and Anne though dreading the possible heats of September in all the white glare of Bath, and grieving to forego all the influence so sweet and so sad of the autumnal months in the country, did not think that, everything considered, she wished to remain.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"I'm glad, Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
