griefless

[Eng. grief; -le .] Free from or without grief. *grief-lỹ, *greef-11, *greef-ly, a. & adv. [Eng. grief; -ly.] A. As adj .: Grievous, sad. "With dayly diligence and griefly groans." Sidney: Arcadia, p. 154. B. As adv.: Grievously. "Whan I was greefly bigo with a grim peeple." A lisa under: Frag ., 994. *grief-shot, a. [Eng. grief , and shot .] Pierced or stricken with grief; sorrow-stricken. "Griefs hot with his unkindne ." griē-gō, s. [GREGGOE.] Shakesp.: Coriolanus , v. 1. *griev-a-ble, *grev-a-ble, a . [Eng. griev(e); -able.] Causing grief; lamentable. "There is a vice ful greuable To hym, whiche is therof culpable." Gower: C. A., bk. v. griēv-ançe, *grev-ance, *grev-aunce, s . [O. Fr. grevance , from gref , grief ; Ital. gravenza .] *1. Hurt, harm, annoyance. *2. A state of grief, sorrow, or pain of mind; affliction, uneasine . 3. Anything which causes grief, sorrow, or pain of mind; especially anything which gives grounds for complaint, remonstrance, or resistance; a hardship, an injury, an injustice. "It bears no sounding name, nor ever bore; A standing grievance." Words worth: Excursion, bk. ix. Crabb thus discriminates between grievance and hardship : "The grievance implies that which lies heavy at heart. Hardship implies that which pre es or bears violently on the person. The griev ance is in general taken for that which is done by another to grieve or distre : the hardship is a particular kind of grievance that pre es upon individuals. There are national grievances , though not national hardships . An infraction of one's rights, an act of violence or oppre ion, are grievances to those who are exposed to them whether as individuals or bodies of men: an unequal distribution of labor, a partial indulgence of one to the detriment of another, constitutes the hardship ." ( Crabb : Eng . Synon .)