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▪ I. wailing, vbl. n.|ˈweɪlɪŋ|
[f. wail v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb.
13..K. Alis. 7871 (Laud MS.), Michel spray mychel gradyng Michel weep mychel waylyng. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxvii. 41 Than Esau..seide in his herte, The dayes of weilyng of my fader shal come, and I shal slee Jacob. a1400Prymer Ps. xxxviii. 8 (1895) 39 Y rorid for þe weilyng of myn herte. c1400Destr. Troy 7155 Myche weping & wo, wayling of teris. 1513Douglas æneis ii. viii. 83 With dulefull scrike and waling all is confoundit. 1532Frith Mirr. to know thyself iii. Wks. (1573) 90 When he saw the shepheard so sore lamenting, he reynde hys horse, & asked him the cause of his great wayling. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xiii. 107 The..pioling of Pelicanes,..and wailing of Turtles. 1814Byron Lara ii. xxv, Her tears were few, her wailing never loud. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Streets—Night, The child is cold and hungry, and its low wailing adds to the misery of its wretched mother. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. iii. 82 Our travellers proceeded to the ‘Place of Wailing’ of the Jews, who assemble every Friday to weep and pray for the restoration of their own country.
b. Often pl.
13..K. Alis. 2360 (Laud MS.), Michel woo & grete wailynges Was made for þoo ȝongelynges. 1486Caxton Curial 11 To seche to gete them after wyth grete wayllynges and sorow. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. title-p., The Wailyngs of the Prophet Hieremiah, done into Englyshe verse. 1695Prior Ode after Queen's Death xxiii, To Earth her bended Front she bow'd, And sent her Wailings to the Skies. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 116 She again set up her wailings. 1801Scott Glenfinlas xxiv, I bade my harp's wild wailings flow. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 24 The deposed Laureate..continued to complain piteously..of the losses which he had not suffered, till at length his wailings drew forth expressions of well merited contempt from brave and honest Jacobites. 1885Manch. Exam. 20 July 6/2 The debate..ended partly in grotesque remedies and partly in wailings of despair.
c. attrib. wailing robes nonce-use, mourning garments; Wailing Wall, the remaining part of the wall of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, destroyed in 70 b.c., revered by Jews as a place of prayer (also † wailing place); also transf. and fig.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 86 Away with these disgracefull wayling Robes. 1878J. Fergusson Temples of Jews ii. xii. 183 The most interesting particular mentioned by the Pilgrim is the ‘Lapis Pertusus’, which was then the Wailing Place of the Jews. 1919Q. Rev. Apr. 328 To the Jews the principal Holy Place is the Wailing Wall, the fragment of the Wall of the Temple at which the Jews perpetually mourn for their lost glories and pray for the restoration of them. 1922Joyce Ulysses 532 Darkshawled figures of the circumcised, in sackcloth and ashes, stand by the wailing wall. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 212 Tin Pan Alley has become a commercialized Wailing Wall. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions iii. v. 945 I've just visited the Wailing Wall, and had a good cry. 1963Daily Tel. 23 Dec. 12/2 The dividing wall [in Berlin] becomes a wailing wall at midnight each night. 1980K. Follett Key to Rebecca xxix. 308 Today I went to the Western Wall, which is also called the Wailing Wall.
▪ II. wailing, ppl. a.|ˈweɪlɪŋ|
[f. wail v. + -ing2.]
1. That utters mournful cries.
1382Wyclif Jer. ix. 17 Beholdeth, and clepeth weilende wymmen [Vulg. lamentatrices]. c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 45 Whan for defawtynge of his hert the vtteryng of his voice beganne to breke, beholde, aforne the weylyng man seynt Barthilmewe stoid. 1742Collins Dirge in Cymbeline 5 No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove. 1821Galt Ann. Parish xviii, A wailing baby, and a widow's heart, was a' he left me. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn vi, See that every preparation is made for a royal funeral, and that the flute-players, the wailing-women,..be all in readiness.
2. Of cries, words: Expressing lamentation. Of sounds: Resembling a wail.
1576Gascoigne Kenelworth Castle Wks. 1910 II. 128 With wailing words and mourning notes. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxviii. xxv, No widow left to use her wailing voice. 1790Burns Elegy Capt. M. H. 18 Come join, ye Nature's sturdiest bairns, My wailing numbers! 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxiii, I only heard..the wailing and prolonged sound of their trumpets. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 112 Through the gaps..the wind rushed with a loud, wild, wailing sound. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 274 Chanting, as they went, a shrill wailing dirge.
Hence ˈwailingly adv.
1836Lytton Athens (1837) II. 37 The wide earth echoes wailingly. 1848S. Carter Midnight Effus. 216 Now tremulous and wailingly Its liquid notes are rushing. 1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 159 She sang the song of Dixie, sorrowfully, wailingly. |