2. Noun. Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake ¹
3. Noun. (by extension) An unpleasant sound. ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of keen) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Keening
1. keen [v] - See also: keen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keening
Literary usage of Keening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919 by George Herbert Clarke (1919)
"... MOIRA'S keening O MOUNTAINS of Erin, Your beauty is fled; Beyond you, in
Flanders, My darling lies dead. Through the dunes and the grasses Bespattered ..."
2. A Book of Saints and Wonders by Gregory (1908)
"... OF keening the island of the mill, they found a very large island and a great
host of people in it. Black they were, both in their bodies and their ..."
3. Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1908)
"CHAPTER V The Island of Achill—Picturesque Scenery—Poverty of the People—"keening"
for the Dead—"The Gintleman Who Pays the Rint"—Superstitious Legends. ..."
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