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This hazarding of Mrs. Owen's favor became now the gravamen of his offense, the culmination of all his offenses.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSONThe gravamen of the charge is so well known to the reader that the simple account which Phineas gave of it need not be repeated.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPEYou will observe, of course, that the gravamen of this consists in my having done so after the confession.
AN ESSAY ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICSGEORGE SHARSWOODA glance at his paean to Arnold Bennett at once reveals the true gravamen of his objection to Dreiser.
A BOOK OF PREFACESH. L. MENCKENAn open pocketbook will easily secure a petition for pardon, it makes but little difference as to the "gravamen" of the crime.
THE TWIN HELLSJOHN N. REYNOLDSMr. Stone's frail form, bent somewhat to one side by the increased gravamen of the osier bag, was now seen moving homewards.
FRATERNITYJOHN GALSWORTHYThe gravamen of the charge against Ishmael lies in the last word of Gen. xxi.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANSG. G. FINDLAYBut foreigners are treated as outside the law, which is the gravamen of the Chinese offence against them.
THE ENGLISHMAN IN CHINA DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA, VOL. II (OF 2)ALEXANDER MICHIEThe gravamen of the heresy seems to have been the suggestion that there were men not of the progeny of Adam.
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, VOLUME IV.THOMAS PAINEThe gravamen of their complaint lay in the fact that I reintroduced the same characters so often!
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYANTHONY TROLLOPEWORDS RELATED TO GRAVAMEN
- ABCs
- amount
- basis
- body
- bottom
- bottom line
- brass tacks
- burden
- center
- core
- corpus
- crux
- drift
- effect
- essentiality
- focus
- general meaning
- gist
- gravamen
- guts
- heart
- import
- innards
- kernel
- marrow
- mass
- matter
- meat
- name of the game
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- nuts and bolts
- pith
- point
- purport
- quintessence
- sense
- significance
- soul
- staple
- strength
- stuff
- subject
- sum total
- tenor
- theme
- thrust
- upshot
- virtuality
- way of it
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.