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Engrieved vs Engrieve - What's the difference?

engrieved | engrieve |

As verbs the difference between engrieved and engrieve

is that engrieved is (engrieve) while engrieve is (archaic|transitive) to cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.

As an adjective engrieved

is hurt, grieved, pained.

engrieved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (engrieve)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hurt, grieved, pained.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
    • my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest [...].

    engrieve

    English

    Verb

    (engriev)
  • (archaic) To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.
  • * 1563 , , Foxe's Book of Martyrs: the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church ,
    • If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.
  • * 1834 , , Basil Montagu (editor), The Works Of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England ,
    • Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve , either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.
  • * 1998', Annabel M. Patterson (editor), ''The trial of '', ' 1577 ),
    • I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a piece of my defence, and therefore I wish that no man should gather evil of it.