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Definition of Sighing
1. a. Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.
Definition of Sighing
1. Verb. (present participle of sigh) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sighing
1. sigh [v] - See also: sigh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sighing
Literary usage of Sighing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"SORROW and sighing, sorrow and sighing, How can it happen that these should pass
Out of a world where the flowers lie dying, Out of a world where all flesh ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1883)
"sighing is a deep and long-drawn inspiration chiefly through the nose followed
by a somewhat shorter, but correspondingly large expiration. ..."
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"up sighing with age as he walked on in a lane among heaps of dead language.
His own consciousness of language was ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"By their praying and whining, And panting and wishing, And sighing and kissing,
And sighing and kissing so close." Cupid in shape of a swain did appear, ..."
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