Definition of "griefe" [griefe]

• Obsolete spelling of grief. (noun)

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• "They haue a custome when any of their fathers die, for griefe and in token of lamentation to drawe as it were, a leather thong ouerthwart their faces, from one eare to the other."
• "For they are of opinion that all diseases growe of superfluite of meate, and that kinde of cure therfore to be beste, that riddeth the grounde of the griefe."
• "They compte it a principall blessednes to be withoute those thinges what so euer they be, that bringe sorowe or griefe to their hauers."