Noun: grieve
| Singular | grieve |
| Plural | grieves |
Sample Sentences
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1559-1566, John Knox, History of the Reformation in Scotland
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[A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or grieve, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.
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[T]heir children were horsewhipped by the grieve when found trespassing; […] [1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 110:]
Nouns inflected like grieve
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German grēve, grâve,
2. related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ġerēfa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve. See: Middle English Nouns '
greve', Old Norse Nouns '
greifi', Old English Nouns '
grœfa', Old English Nouns '
ġerēfa'.