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▪ I. † wayˈment, n. Obs.
Also 4 weyment.
[a. OF. waiment, weyment, guaiment, f. waimenter: see next.]
Lamentation.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 4435 A gret wayment and hideous cry Might men here then witterly, That the Troyens made y-wys For the wounde of Philomenys. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iv. 35 She made so piteous mone and deare wayment, That [etc.]. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. iii. ix, All things did augment My heavie plight, that fouly I blam'd the hest Of stubborn destiny cause of this wayment.
▪ II. † wayˈment, v. Obs.
Also 4–5 waymente, weyment(e, 4–5, 7 wament, 5–6 Sc. woment, wement, 6–7 waiment.
[a. OF. waimenter, weymenter, guaimenter, f. wai, guai int., wo, alas; prob. after lamenter to lament.]
1. intr. To lament, wail; to sorrow bitterly.
1375Cant. Creat. 177 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 126/2 Þus seuentene dayes and more Alle þe fisches sorweden þore And waymentide wiþ Adam. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋230 Thilke science, as seith seint Augustyn, maketh a man to waymenten in his herte. c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 94 The whilk for hire two sons waymentid doelfully. 1530Palsgr. 779/2, I wement, I make mone... It dyd my hert yll to here the poore boye wement whan his mother was gone. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. i. 16 For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, When ill is chaunst? 1595Locrine ii. ii. 89 And therefore well may I wayment. 1678Littleton Eng.-Lat. Dict., To wament, lamento. 1814Cary Dante, Purg. xxvi. 135 Sorely waymenting for my folly past. 1861K. H. Digby Chapel St. John (1863) 182 The profane laity chuckling or waymenting when conferring professionally with one another on their..gains, or losses.
refl.c1450Merlin xvi. 262 Whan he hadde thus hym longe waymented.
2. trans. To bewail, lament for.
c1475Partenay 3324 He thaim complained And waymented sore. 1566Gascoigne Jocasta ii. i. 57 And mee thy wretched dame,..waymenting still Th' vnworthie exile thy brother to thee gaue. 1593G. Harvey New Let. Notable Cont. Wks. (Grosart) I. 296 Magnifique Mindes..In grisly weedes His Obsequies waiment.
Hence † wayˈmenting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxiii. 21 The ded of synfulmen..is werst.., thof it be endid in riches and honurs and waymentynge of men. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 137 The grete clamour and the waymentynge That the ladyes made at the brennynge Of the bodies. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 161 The pittows wementyng [ed. 1570 womenting], The wofull wepyng that was for his takyng. 1513Douglas æneis iv. viii. 2 How mony sobbis gaif thow and womentingis? 1566Gascoigne Jocasta v. v. 116, I will..washe thy wounds with my waymenting teares. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. iv. 504 For their lost husbands they entreate their waymentings by repetition of the good and gracefull partes they were endowed with. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. ii. xviii. 130 The..pittifull waymenting of the people. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano i. xvi. 53 How waymenting Came in joy's place. |