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

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 Seaman, Owen, Sir