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 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
This is the gravamen of a column in the Independent, a British newspaper.
From Washington Post
"We!" said her ladyship, picking out the gravamen of this something.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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