What's the difference between grief and griff?

Grief


Definition:

  • (a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
  • (a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.
  • (a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
  • (3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (4) Does he need the grief if the support is not there?
  • (5) Earlier descriptions of pathological grief are reviewed.
  • (6) As night fell in Paris, despite the bitter cold, more than 5,000 people gathered under the imposing statue of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to show their anger, grief and solidarity.
  • (7) This supports conclusions by other grief counsellors (e.g.
  • (8) On Friday, friends and relatives spoke of their grief.
  • (9) The impact of early childhood loss, identification with the deceased, chronic grief, delayed grief, exaggerated or masked grief, and the death of a dream are discussed, and clinical examples are used to illustrate concepts of intervention.
  • (10) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
  • (11) This article reviews recent literature on bereavement concerning the typical features of both normal and pathological grief.
  • (12) Data are presented tentatively supporting the conclusion that the SIDS grief intervention program had a beneficial impact on the participants.
  • (13) This paper provides guidelines for health professionals in dealing with the particular grief reactions experienced by families of babies who die of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
  • (14) When I think back to that time, I recall an almost constant sense of grief.
  • (15) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
  • (16) 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Read more The city has improved significantly in recent years – crime dropped, the economy improved, the population stopped declining for the first time in 60 years – but you couldn’t see Baltimore’s newfound prosperity in Freddie Gray’s backyard, or in the gardens nearby.
  • (17) Of course, her grief and the work she is doing now are intimately connected.
  • (18) All participants completed a sibling bereavement inventory consisting of 109 scaled items that measured self-concept perceptions and grief reactions.
  • (19) Futile cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent humane care of the dying child and deprive parents of the opportunity to express their love, grief, and dedication at a critical moment, while appropriate and successful CPR may restore intact their child.
  • (20) The grief work involved in coping with a loved one's death does not end when the loved one dies.

Griff


Definition:

  • (n.) Grasp; reach.
  • (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
  • (2) One afternoon sometime earlier, Chuck D and Professor Griff are being driven through London.
  • (3) The campaigners, who also include sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor , Restoration presenter Griff Rhys Jones, Charles Saumarez Smith, chief executive of the Royal Academy, and Lord Baker, the former Tory home secretary, pledge to fight what they describe as a fundamental and damaging transformation of London.
  • (4) Professor Griff is a rapper from the political hip hop group Public Enemy.
  • (5) Police described the shooter as a “loner” and, bizarrely, pointed out out that he had shown an appreciation of the rapper Professor Griff, a founding member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, and an outspoken proponent of Afrocentrism, on Facebook.
  • (6) Griff is writing an expose on 'global white supremacy and all of its attributes'.
  • (7) Having spent the morning at MTV and scoring free trainers from Adidas, Chuck and Griff are on their way to E4, to record a show in which they'll choose their favourite videos.
  • (8) Less welcome was Professor Griff's 1989 interview with the Washington Times where he condemned Jews as responsible for 'the majority of the wickedness that goes on across the globe'.
  • (9) Griff also expanded the group's parameters, calling himself Minister of Information, the title Eldridge Cleaver held in the Black Panthers.
  • (10) Griff Rhys Jones claims he will be “hit hard” by a mansion tax and could leave the country if one is introduced ( Report, 4 November ).
  • (11) His neighbours included future bandmates Professor Griff, Hank Shocklee and Bill Stephney, as well as Eddie Murphy.
  • (12) Chuck tried to defuse the crisis without throwing Griff (who apologised too late) under the bus but his compromise solution ended up pleasing nobody.
  • (13) Public Enemy was meant to be a lively democracy, with Chuck mediating between the goofy, anarchic Flavor Flav and the stern, ultra-militant “Minister of Information” Professor Griff, but that didn’t pan out.
  • (14) A pass to Griff Whalen is good for 22 yards, which takes them to New England's 38.
  • (15) Griff Fender, best known as a vocalist for the 70s band The Darts, and dancer Laura Street have worked with Oily Cart for many years.
  • (16) At the risk of "Professor Griff'n myself", he says, referring to the dementedly Afrocentric Public Enemy member, he's currently working on "teaching young black working-class kids about agency; awareness of the palette open to them.
  • (17) At its most basic level, pixação is about vanity, fame and self-promotion, which is why the vast majority of pixos are either personal monikers or the names of particular griffes (collectives).
  • (18) He doesn’t publicly criticise Griff for giving paranoid lectures about the Illuminati, just like he didn’t knock Flav for becoming a clownish reality TV star.
  • (19) Police referenced Johnson’s Facebook account in its statement: The suspect’s Facebook account included the following names and information: Fahed Hassen, Richard GRIFFIN aka Professor Griff, GRIFFIN embraces a radical form of Afrocentrism, and GRIFFIN wrote a book A Warriors Tapestry.
  • (20) Solar farms have proven controversial in some individual cases, with a councillor in Devon likening them to concentration camps and comedian Griff Rhys Jones fighting a high-profile campaign against one outside Ipswich , but government polling shows it is one of the most popular energy technologies, with around 80% public support.

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