different between grieve vs oversorrow
grieve
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /??i?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin grav?, grav?re, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
Verb
grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)
- (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.
- (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
- to grieve one's fate
- (intransitive) To experience grief.
- (transitive, archaic) To harm.
- (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
- 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.
- 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
Derived terms
- begrieve
- grieved
- griever
- grievingly
Related terms
- grievance
- grievous
- grief
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German gr?ve, grâve,related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ?er?fa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.
Noun
grieve (plural grieves)
- (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
- (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Derived terms
- grieveship
Anagrams
- regive
Old French
Verb
grieve
- third-person singular present indicative of grever
grieve From the web:
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oversorrow
English
Etymology
over- +? sorrow
Verb
oversorrow (third-person singular simple present oversorrows, present participle oversorrowing, simple past and past participle oversorrowed)
- (transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively.
- 1826 (original 1643), John Milton, Francis Jenks, A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton:
- He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that serene and blissful condition it was in at the beginning, and shall deserve of all [...]
- 1818, Annabella Plumptre, Tales of wonder, of humour, and of sentiment:
- " Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself."
- 1826 (original 1643), John Milton, Francis Jenks, A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton:
Derived terms
- oversorrowed
- oversorrowing
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