beˈwailment [f. bewail + -ment.] A bewailing, a lamentation. 1607Beaumont Wom. Hater iii. i. Wks. 477 These lamentations, these lowsie love-layes, these bewailements.1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 33 A general bewailment of the ‘inconsistency’..of human nature.