bewailing

English

Verb

bewailing

  1. present participle and gerund of bewail

Noun

bewailing (plural bewailings)

  1. 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.
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