Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for gravamen. Search instead for grammen.
Definitions

gravamen

[gruh-vay-muhn] / grəˈveɪ mən /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

If they cannot, they will be expected to submit a gravamen to the Professional Status Committee and the Board of Trustees before they are hired.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022

"The gravamen of the claimed wrongdoing is that the Laundries exercised their constitutional rights and essentially made no statements to Plaintiffs or law enforcement," the motion states.

From Fox News ● Mar. 30, 2022

What mattered, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, was the core, or gravamen, of the lawsuit.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2015

But are hipsters the gravamen here or victims of circumstances, when steady job prospects are remote and social premium is placed on a good coffee high?

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014

That indeed is the gravamen of my charge: the diabolic ingenuity with which he makes not so much our pleasant vices as our little almost-virtues into whips to scourge us with.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 by Sir Owen Seaman

At this council gravamina were adopted which show that constant encroachments were made on the sphere of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com