单词 | bewailing |
释义 | bewailingn. The utterance of wails; loud lamentation, mourning. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > wailing reameOE woningc950 reminga1200 wailinga1400 bewailing1485 howling1490 yammer?a1513 wailc1540 wailment1593 bewailment1607 ejulationa1620 alleleu1689 yammering1705 ululation?1799 waly-walying1821 1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde 3 The fader & moder..desyred to make bewaillynges. 1524 R. Copland tr. J. de Bourbon Syege Cyte of Rodes in Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. Eijv With grete heuynes, inestymable doloris and bewaylynges. 1635 G. Wither Lord's Prayer (1665) 82 Else his bewailings had not proceeded from true compassion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). bewailingadj. That bewails or laments. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [adjective] > wailing wailinga1382 yammeringc1540 bewailing1623 ululating1894 ululant1896 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 256 Thy Ambition..robb'd this bewailing Land Of Noble Buckingham. View more context for this quotation Derivatives beˈwailingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [adverb] > wailingly wailfully1611 wailingly1836 bewailingly1862 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 234 He alludes bewailingly to the November fog, that stops his painting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < |
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