gravamen
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"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 the gravamen of the economic charge against her is the neglect of manufacturing industry.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
This is the gravamen of a column in the Independent, a British newspaper.
From Washington Post
The gravamen of the charge is so well known to the reader that the simple account which Phineas gave of it need not be repeated.
From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
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
