begrieve

English edit

Etymology edit

From be- (“around, about, over”) +‎ grieve.

Verb edit

begrieve (third-person singular simple present begrieves, present participle begrieving, simple past and past participle begrieved)

(transitive, archaic, rare) To grieve over or about.
- 1930, William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust:
  […] and the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the second who do begrieve Lucas's shameful condition and would improve it […]
- 1989, Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe, Economy and Culture in the Baltic, 1650-1700:
  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.
- 1989, Cedric Gael Bryant, Race, Gender, and Metaphor in Five Major Novels by William Faulkner:
  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.
- 2000, Lewis Burke Frumkes, Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough, page 128:
  "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."
- 2009, Kathryn L. Pringle, Right New Biology, page 61:
  […] 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 […]
(transitive, archaic, rare) To cause grief or grieving.
- 1996, Cameron Judd, Passage to Natchez, page 229:
  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.

Synonyms edit

(to grieve over): lament