gravamen
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡɹəˈveɪmɛn/
gravamen (plural gravamens)
- The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint.
- 1822, The Annual Register, or a view of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the year 1820, part II, Abstracts of State Trials ↗, account of trial following the Peterloo Massacre, pages 902–903:
- Falsehood, which was in ordinary cases the gravamen of the complaint, was omitted altogether in the information against him.
- 2002, Eric S. Raymond, [http://www.catb.org/~esr/sf-words/essay.html SF Words and Prototype Worlds]:
- The gravamen of this essay is that these signifiers (the jargon of SF) function not merely as a set of isolated signs […]
- 1822, The Annual Register, or a view of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the year 1820, part II, Abstracts of State Trials ↗, account of trial following the Peterloo Massacre, pages 902–903:
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