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Definition of Bemoaners
1. bemoaner [n] - See also: bemoaner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemoaners
Literary usage of Bemoaners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"The beholders that day were so divided betwixt bemoaners and insulters, it was
hard to decide which of them made up the major part of the company. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Shepard: First Pastor of the First Church, Cambridge by Thomas Shepard (1853)
"The beholders that day were so divided between bemoaners and insulters, that it
was hard to decide which of them made up the major part of the company. ..."
3. Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England by Alexander Wilson M'Clure (1870)
"The beholders that day were so divided between bemoaners and insulters, that it
was hard to decide which of them made up the major part of the company."! ..."
4. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays by John Galsworthy (1913)
"The new novel has as many bemoaners as the old novel had when it was new. It is
no question of better or worse, but of differing forms—of change dictated by ..."