Would it be a grievious sin for two cousin-germans to marry, without such dispensation?
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Grievious
//ˈɡɹiː.viː.əs//
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Reasonable apprehension of immediate danger of grievious bodily harm to his wife and children, then in the house of the accused, is a justification of shooting the deceased, [...]
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Thus S.16 (1) (d) would apply if while H and W were happily married, H fought with S at a party and caused S grievious bodily harm and H was imprisoned; [...]
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