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Solace

Comfort in grief alleviation of grief or anxiety also that which relieves in distress that which cheers or consoles relief

Relentless

Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness insensible to the distresses of others destitute of tenderness unrelenting unyielding unpitying as a prey to relentless despotism

Marlebridge, Statute of

of, 52 Hen. 3, A.D. 1267, enacted at Marlebridge, now Marlborough, and principally directed against unlawful and excessive distresses, as to which it is still in force.

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Distringas

A distringas in detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they

Districtione scaccarii

Districtione scaccarii. See 51 Hen. 3, st. 5, relating to distresses in the Exchequer for the king's debts

Cruelty

Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(ia)]. In common English acceptation denotes a state of conduct which is painful and distressing to another, Arvind Singh v. State of Bihar, (2001) 6 SC 407 (Indian Penal Code, s. 498A) Is

Heartrending

Causing intense grief overpowering with anguish very distressing

Presentiment

Previous sentiment conception or opinion previous apprehension especially an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant distressing or calamitous about to happen anticipation of evil foreboding

Needful

Full of need in need or want needy distressing

Entrap

a trap to insnare hence to catch as in a trap by artifices to involve in difficulties or distresses to catch or involve in contradictions as to be entrapped by the devices of evil men

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