bewailing
English edit
Verb edit
bewailing
- present participle and gerund of bewail
Noun edit
bewailing (plural bewailings)
- The act of one who bewails something.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 158:
- 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!
- 1867, Annie Thomas, Called to Account:
- 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.