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- noun Plural form of
gravamen .
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Examples
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The gravamina or grievances of the Empire articulated regularly at the
REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968
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German city, and renewed in an offensive manner the earlier antipapal complaints of the Germans, the famous "Centum (101) gravamina teutonicae nationis"; Pastor adds (op.cit. 97) that the failure of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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A list of the gravamina of the Churches and the clerics, discussed at the Council of Vienne (1311), contains ample proof of the abuse of authority to which the Church was subjected, and the writer of the poem "Avisemens pour le roy Loys," composed in 1315 for Louis X, exhorted this new king to live in peace with the Church, which Philip
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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But the most serious gravamina have been laid at the door of those Blue Lodges of Missouri which deliberately sought to secure the election of pro-slavery candidates by fair means or foul.
Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900
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As evidence of his desire to remove this most tangible of Southern gravamina, Douglas introduced a supplementary fugitive slave bill on
Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900
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But Eusebius, who was still in towering wrath, refused to withdraw what he had said, and endeavoured to thrust his schedule of gravamina into the
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Arch. suorum suffraganeorum sibi subditorum universorum, prælatorum pariter et cleri procuratorum, convocationem isto anno apud Londonias semel et secundo, propter gravamina et oppressiones, de die in diem per summum pontificem et D.
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Further, if the ruler or regent, as the organ of the supreme power, proceeds in violation of the laws, as in imposing taxes, recruiting soldiers, and so on, contrary to the law of equality in the distribution of the political burdens, the subject may oppose complaints and objections (gravamina) to this injustice, but not active resistance.
The Science of Right 1790
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Lewis XII strove in vain to alarm him by the National Council of Tours, -- Germany, by severe gravamina (complaints of national grievances against the Papal
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904
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