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

“The conduct constituting the gravamen of Sachs’s suit plainly occurred abroad,’’ Roberts wrote.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2015

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

We should not grudge the money for service rendered; the gravamen of our impeachment is that no monarch now can render service of value.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)