gravamen
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Gravamen, grav-ā′men, n. grievance: the substantial or chief ground of complaint or accusation: the name for the statement of abuses, grievances, &c. sent by the Lower to the Upper House of Convocation.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Is your Advisera such a Suavamen to you, that hath been such a Gravamen to Religion and Peace?
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Ward, Nathaniel
