Word Meanings - BEWAILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to BEWAILING)

• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
• LAMENT
  To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.
• WAIL
  To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
• WAILFUL
  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
• LAMENTINGLY
  In a lamenting manner.
• WAILINGLY
  In a wailing manner.
• LAMENTIN
  See LAMANTIN
• WAILERESS
  A woman who wails.
• LAMENTABLE
  1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.
• LAMENTER
  One who laments.
• WAILER
  One who wails or laments.
• LAMENTATION
  1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii.
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• BEWAILABLE
  Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• VORTEX FILAMENT
  A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.
• LOCULAMENT
  The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
• FILAMENTOID
  Like a filament.
• FILAMENTARY
  Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
• BEWAILMENT
  The act of bewailing.