beweptadj.
/bɪˈwɛpt/ archaic.
Drowned in tears; marked or disfigured by weeping.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > suffused or wet with tears
wet?c1225
beweptc1320
tearyc1374
moistc1390
watery1447
watered1571
blubberedc1575
vaporous1583
swelling1769
moist-eyed1797
c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1186 He fond his emperice..here visage al biwope.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 888 That he yow nat bi~wepen thus ne fynde.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 661 Al bi-weped for wo.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos iv. 24.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xii. sig. Tiv Wasshe clene your visage and eyen thus biwept.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 337 The Prince, all bewept and in emotion, followed his Father.
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