Bewailing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bewailing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of bewail.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of bewail.
More Meanings
- The act of one who bewails something.
Example Sentences
No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again.
We might have been!—these are but common words, And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing; They are the echo of those finer chords, Whose music life deplores when unavailing, We might have been!
Word Forms
- bewailings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bemoan, lament, deplore, regret, bewailment, beweeper.
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