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Complaint : (noun)
1: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for
complaining [syn: ailment, ill]
2: (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or
sorrow
3: an expression of grievance or resentment
4: (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out
the facts on which the claim for relief is based
5: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense;
"he was arrested on a charge of larceny" [syn: charge]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Complaint : \Com*plaint"\, n. [F. complainte. See Complain.]
1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment;
lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
I poured out my complaint before him. --Ps. cxlii.
2.
Grievous complaints of you. --Shak.
2. Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the
complaint of all who wish well to the church.
--Swift.
3. An ailment or disease of the body.
One in a complaint of his bowels. --Arbuthnot.
4. (Law) A formal allegation or charge against a party made
or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a
wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case,
generally under oath); an information; accusation; the
initial bill in proceedings in equity.
Syn: Lamentation; murmuring; sorrow; grief; disease; illness;
disorder; malady; ailment.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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COMPLAINT, crim. law. The allegation made to a proper officer, that some
person, whether known or unknown, has been guilty of a designated offence,
with an offer to prove the fact, and a request that the offender may be
punished.
2. To have a legal effect, theComplaint : must be supported by such
evidence as shows that an offence has been committed, and renders it certain
or probable that it was committed by the person named or described in the
complaint.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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