gravamen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A grievance complained of.

   “They have brought in two Papers, they ſay, in the nature of a Gravamen. I take it to be a Gravamen, and of ill conſequence for the time to come, when we have liberty to give in Reaſons to the Houſes, that they ſhould in writing give in Gravamen's to us.”

2. isim A document sent by the Lower House of Convocation to the Upper House to inform the latter of certain grievances in the church.

   “In the mean while, it was reſolved at the Synod, that ſince they muſt wait for the cited Remonſtrants, they would enter upon ſome of the Gravamina, or Points of Grievance which the Churches had laid before the Provincial Synods.”

3. isim The essence or ground of a complaint.

   “[P]roperly, no evidence can be read here that was not read below, and if evidence, which ought to have been read there, was rejected, that ought to be the gravamen of the appeal.”

4. isim The essence or most important aspect of a piece of writing, a point of argument, etc.; the gist.

   “That neither Dr. Leask, nor myself, acted on such a principle, is the whole gravamen of our opponent's furious assaults upon us.”

5. isim A formal charge or complaint.

   “[W]hen certain intereſt of a few great perſons were complied with, and ſeveral too juſtly complained of Gravamina from the Roman Court remedied, there might be a poſſibility of cloſing again with that Church which they then only ſo far deſerted.”