plaint
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pleɪnt/
plaint (plural plaints)
- (poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
- 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale ↗, page 11:
- In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 75,
- His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
- 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale ↗, page 11:
- A complaint.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- (archaic) A sad song.
- (archaic or UK legal) An accusation.
- Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
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