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▪ I. bemoaning, vbl. n.|bɪˈməʊnɪŋ|
Also 3 bimening.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
Lamentation, wailing, grief loudly expressed.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2484 He ðer abiden, And bi-mening for iacob deden. c1300K. Alis. 534 The kyng..Wolde..make bymenyng Of his wyves misdoyng. 1592Greene Poems 41 Send forth winter in her rusty weed To wail my bemoanings. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 434 The Samaritane..did not express his Pity in idle and unprofitable Bemoanings. 1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxv. 7 Sincere penitents..are constrained to use many bemoanings.
▪ II. beˈmoaning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Lamenting, miserably plaintive. Hence beˈmoaningly adv.
1639Fuller Holy War ii. vii. (1840) 57 Sending his bemoaning letters to Boemund prince of Antioch. 1655― Hist. Camb. (1840) 173 A bemoaning letter to king Henry. 1647J. Mayne Serm. (1647) 38 You, Sir, who have..thus bemoaningly pitied our divisions. |