bewail
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɪˈweɪl/
bewail (bewails, present participle bewailing; past and past participle bewailed)
- To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene 6,
- […] Though in this city he
- Hath widow’d and unchilded many a one,
- Which to this hour bewail the injury,
- Yet he shall have a noble memory.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 8:52,
- And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, “The Haunted Tree”
- […] when the wind
- Blows keenly, it sends forth a creaking sound
- (Above the general roar of woods and crags)
- Distinctly heard from far--a doleful note!
- As if (so Grecian shepherds would have deemed)
- The Hamadryad, pent within, bewailed
- Some bitter wrong.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene 6,
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