Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of bewailing; a lamentation.

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  • noun The act of bewailing.

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  • noun The act of bewailing.

Etymologies

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bewail +‎ -ment

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Examples

  • The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo trade, for four – and – twenty hours.

    The Cricket on the Hearth 2007

  • Peacock, but rather a sort of moaning melody, half music and half bewailment.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

  • To you, therefore, as to the Sir Philip Sidney of modern Arcadia, do I address the voice of my bewailment.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

  • The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo trade, for four-and-twenty hours.

    The Cricket on the Hearth 1845

  • The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo Trade, for four-and-twenty hours.

    The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 1841

  • The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo trade, for four-and-twenty hours.

    The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 1841

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