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  • noun Plural form of weeping.

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Examples

  • In seconds, quiet weepings lurched into audible sobs, dampened eyes blinked fast and then spilled messy tears.

    Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: HuffPost Religion Round-Up, June 27-July 4 Paul Brandeis Raushenbush 2011

  • In seconds, quiet weepings lurched into audible sobs, dampened eyes blinked fast and then spilled messy tears.

    Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: HuffPost Religion Round-Up, June 27-July 4 Paul Brandeis Raushenbush 2011

  • In seconds, quiet weepings lurched into audible sobs, dampened eyes blinked fast and then spilled messy tears.

    Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: HuffPost Religion Round-Up, June 27-July 4 Paul Brandeis Raushenbush 2011

  • One atop the other they sat, her trapped weepings, encased in perfect crystal.

    Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

  • One atop the other they sat, her trapped weepings, encased in perfect crystal.

    Catherynne M. Valente's Palimpest: An Exclusive Excerpt Omnivoracious 2009

  • I recalled reading Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild's anthology Global Woman, a sociologically important book, and thinking helplessly at one point, But what can I do if a young Filipina fell in love and moved in with an abusive unemployed alcoholic — and yet somehow managed, between the weepings and beatings, to create four children?

    Kiddie Class Struggle 2005

  • I recalled reading Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild's anthology Global Woman, a sociologically important book, and thinking helplessly at one point, But what can I do if a young Filipina fell in love and moved in with an abusive unemployed alcoholic — and yet somehow managed, between the weepings and beatings, to create four children?

    Kiddie Class Struggle 2005

  • And shall we proceed to get rid of the weepings and wailings of famous men?

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • There was a fearful outcry, hysterics of an elegant order, and weepings enough to produce summer spate in the

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Look you, I have noticed in my long life that those who eternally break in upon Those Above with complaints and reports and bellowings and weepings are presently sent for in haste, as our Colonel used to send for slack-jawed down-country men who talked too much.

    Kim 2003

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