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Definition of Cryings
1. crying [n] - See also: crying
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryings
Literary usage of Cryings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seven Maids of Far Cathay: Being English Notes from a Chinese Class Book by Mary Forman] [Ledyard, Abertine D. Mandall (1916)
"Why do you not make cryings? It is our custom. ... American lady make first
marriage, no cryings, sometimes later make cryings, but not always. ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"... instead of their expectation, injuries, oppressions, wrongs, injustice,
violence, and such complainings and cryings out in all quarters and parts even ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Late Chaplain by John Gillies (1798)
"... have teen, in a good many, attended with out-cryings, faintings, ... falling under
great concern here and there, though the great cryings and outward ..."
4. The Collected Writings of Edward Irving by Edward Irving (1865)
"... bear witness to those prayers, and supplications, and tears, and strong cryings,
with which Christ so earnestly besought to be delivered from death. ..."
5. Analogies in the Progress of Nature and Grace: Four Sermons Preached Before by Charles Pritchard (1868)
"I could say more than this, if in reverence and propriety I dared, for I could
refer to those strong, sad, mysterious cryings upon the Cross when the ..."
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