waymenting

English

Etymology

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English wayment

English -ing

English waymenting

wayment +‎ -ing

Verb

waymenting

1. present participle and gerund of wayment

Noun

waymenting (plural waymentings)

1. (obsolete) Lamentation.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.4:

     for their lost husbands they encrease their waymentings by repetition of the good and gracefull parts they were endowed with […].