Word Meanings - BEWAILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to BEWAILING)
- 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.