Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice; also, containing a plaint.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete complaining; expressing sorrow audibly

Etymologies

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plaint +‎ -ful

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