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Send to friendYou found beauty and even splendor wherever you went—and ugliness too, of course, where the greedy or careless men had despoiled the land. And you found the people bursting with friendliness, cordiality, hospitality.
Gravamen
A complaint or grievance, particularly the principal damage claimed to borne by the accuser.
Found in a quoted section of a New Jersey child abuse case in a recent post on The Volokh Conspiracy. The post uses the case to raise questions of balancing religious freedom and parental rights in legal cases.
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