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Definition of Bewailing
1. a. Wailing over; lamenting.
Definition of Bewailing
1. Verb. (present participle of bewail) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bewailing
1. bewail [v] - See also: bewail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bewailing
Literary usage of Bewailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... described Bruin bewailing the loss of his bear to a solitary echo, who is of
great use to the poet in several distichs, as she does not only repeat ..."
2. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"... which I will proceed to give : bewailing of a Barge. "Fast on a sand-bar!
no getting her off tonight." Such was the remark that passed around among the ..."
3. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"... talking and bewailing the posture of things at present ; the king led away by
half-a-dozen men, that none of his serious servants and friends can come ..."
4. The History of the Late Province of New-York, from Its Discovery, to the by William Smith, New-York Historical Society (1829)
"bewailing the alteration of temper and sentiments in the several branches of the
Legislature, they proceed to its causes. They esteemed his falling into the ..."
5. The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors by Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh (1819)
"bewailing MT I LOVE the Lord ; but ah ! how far My thoughts from the dear object
are ! This wanton heart, how wide it roves ! And fancy meets a thousand ..."
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