Grievance

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Middle English (also in the sense ‘injury’): from Old French grevance, from grever ‘to burden’ (see grieve1).

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From Old French grievance, from the verb grever(“to irritate; to bother; to annoy”) + -ance.

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grievance (n.)

c. 1300, "state of being aggrieved," from Old French grevance "harm, injury, misfortune; trouble, suffering, agony, sorrow," from grever "to harm, to burden, be harmful to" (see grief). In reference to a cause of such a condition, from late 15c.