Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bewailing; a lamentation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of bewailing.
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- noun The act of
bewailing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo trade, for four – and – twenty hours.
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Peacock, but rather a sort of moaning melody, half music and half bewailment.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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To you, therefore, as to the Sir Philip Sidney of modern Arcadia, do I address the voice of my bewailment.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo trade, for four-and-twenty hours.
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The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo Trade, for four-and-twenty hours.
The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 1841
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The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo trade, for four-and-twenty hours.
The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 1841
ruzuzu commented on the word bewailment
Cf. beawainment.
December 18, 2010