The state or quality of being wronged or treated unfairly; a grievance or complaint.
From Middle English 'aggrevaance,' derived from Old French 'agrever' (to make heavier or worse), combined with the suffix '-ance.' The root comes from Latin 'ad-' (to) and 'gravis' (heavy), originally meaning to burden or oppress.
This word is a archaic cousin of 'grievance'—it fell out of fashion after the 1600s because English speakers preferred the shorter form, but it preserves the original sense of making something 'heavy' or burdensome, which is why we still feel emotional 'weight' when we're wronged.
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