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Word Meanings - BEWAILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.

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  • LAMENTING
    Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
  • WAILMENT
    Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
  • LAMENTED
    Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
  • LAMENT
    To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.
  • WAIL
    To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
  • WAILFUL
    Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
  • LAMENTINGLY
    In a lamenting manner.
  • WAILINGLY
    In a wailing manner.
  • LAMENTIN
    See LAMANTIN
  • WAILERESS
    A woman who wails.
  • LAMENTABLE
    1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.
  • LAMENTER
    One who laments.
  • WAILER
    One who wails or laments.
  • LAMENTATION
    1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii.
  • BEWAIL
    To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
  • FILAMENTOUS
    Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
  • BEWAILING
    Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
  • BEWAILABLE
    Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
  • WIDOW-WAIL
    A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
  • VORTEX FILAMENT
    A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.
  • LOCULAMENT
    The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
  • FILAMENTOID
    Like a filament.
  • FILAMENTARY
    Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
  • BEWAILMENT
    The act of bewailing.

 

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