{
  "id": "grievance.held",
  "term": "grievance",
  "sense": "held",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A self model's reading that another set its walls nearer than a rule allowed, kept as something that other must repair.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "read.information",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "near.spatial",
      "rules.social",
      "allow.permission",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "repair.restore"
    ],
    "interaction": "The reading is not only that the walls are near but that another put them there against a rule; it is kept rather than dropped, so it becomes a standing claim that shapes the self model's reading of that other.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "harm read as owed back",
      "a reading kept as a claim",
      "walls blamed on a setter"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "enemy.against",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "an enemy is read as aiming at one's walls now; a grievance is about walls already set"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "outrage-of-the-week.serial",
    "sense-of-grievance.collective",
    "take-back-our-country.regain",
    "winter-of-discontent.strikes"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "aggrieved",
    "grievance",
    "grievances"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-grievance.held"
}