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▪ I. complaining, vbl. n.|kəmˈpleɪnɪŋ|
[f. complain v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. complain; plaint, complaint.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1353 Dido, To yow make I myn compleynynge. 1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. 298 The complaynynge & lamentacyon, that the soule of this noble prynces myghte make. 1611Bible Ps. cxliv. 14 That there be no complaining in our streetes. 1702Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. iv. i, The piercing Accents of her loud Complainings. 1820Keats St. Agnes xxxv, Those looks immortal, those complainings dear.
b. transf. and fig.
1735Somerville Chace ii. 428 The Bird..cheared the list'ning Groves With sweet Complainings. 1839Marryat Phant. Ship ix, Hear..the complaining of her masts. 1882Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 2/2 The..moaning of the wind in the rigging, and the complaining of massive timbers.
▪ II. comˈplaining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That complains; lamenting, murmuring, querulous.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. x. (1495) 472 A compleynyng voyce of doole and sorowe. c1430tr. T. à Kempis' Consol. iii. iii, Be ashamed þerfore, þou sluggussh & compleynyng seruaunt. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 5 The Nightingales complaining Notes. 1687Dryden Ode St. Cecilia 33 The soft complaining Flute. 1734Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 4/1 On the complaining part of Ovid's Epistles. 1856Bryant Thanatopsis 41 The complaining brooks That make the meadows green.
Hence comˈplainingly adv.; comˈplainingness.
1627Rawley Bacon's Silva Wks. 1677 A iv b, I have heard his Lordship speak complainingly. 1816Byron Siege Cor. xxxiii, The jackal's troop..Bay'd from afar complainingly. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. v. xxxix, Kate lifting up her eyebrows with a playful complainingness. |