Meaning

(transitive, archaic, rare) To grieve over or about..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, archaic, rare) To grieve over or about.
2. (transitive, archaic, rare) To cause grief or grieving.

Example Sentences

[…] and the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the second who do begrieve Lucas's shameful condition and would improve it […]

He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers. Near Namur on the Meuse he describes a hermits' lodge carved in stone with the internal movable contrivance representing the Passion.

The logical inconsistency of "begrieving" a shameful condition, while postponing its abolition is the fundamental fault Baldwin finds with Faulkner's racial politics and white southern liberalism generally.

"There lies Jack Spratt; alas, he could eat no more fat. And beside him his fat wife who used to lick the platter clean. Ah, it begrieves me to see them here."

[…] a whisper is the spectacle of ache is apparatus in this all worn libido stricken fixer : obligate bleeder begrieving that regal population before nothing CONSTRUCT inhales reservations we has PLACE […]

It was begrieving to see how the intrusion of even a smattering of pride and moral standards could impede on what had always been a carefree, shiftless life.

Word Forms

• begrieves
• begrieving
• begrieved

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