The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

Usage examples of weeping.

After a time, Anele wore out his inchoate sorrow and lapsed from weeping.

He was weeping silently and had bit his lip trying to be game arout it.

She had encountered him once when he was at his workwaxing the aumbries and weeping, so that the wax mingled with his tears.

The thing was done so rapidly that the sheriff--a sly, keen fellow, worthy of his clients Barbet and Metivier--found the lad weeping in his chair when he entered the wretched room, after assuring himself that the manuscripts were not in the antechamber.

When Belding returned, and, instead of being accompanied by Wallace, merely brought a letter from him, the unhappy Susan would sink into fits of lamentation and weeping, and repel every effort to console her with an obstinacy that partook of madness.

One weeps to achieve a reputation for tenderness, weeps to be pitied, weeps to be bewept, in fact one weeps to avoid the disgrace of not weeping!

Lieutenant Fytch had ordered the toll-keeper and his wife out of their house and the woman, who had earlier threatened Sharpe with her blunderbuss, was now weeping for the loss of her home.

Just then Marcoline came back to the room, and everybody could see that she had been weeping.

It was a cool, glistening patch in the shade of old weeping willows, and forcing a way through the clumps of weeds, preening and splashing themselves, swam a couple of snow-white, red-beaked geese.

This news so shocked me that I could not rise, and passed the whole day in weeping and writing, Tonine not leaving me till midnight.

Zaira spent the next morning in gathering together her belongings, now laughing and now weeping, and every time that she left her packing to give me a kiss I could not resist weeping myself.

And when they called their sister by her name, that their lamentable cries came unto her eares, shee came forth and said, Behold, heere is shee for whom you weepe, I pray you torment your selves no more, cease your weeping.

The darshan was in attendance, and other members of our little congregation, and of course I was there, weeping and trying to weep with quiet dignity.

Then I being left alone to the high cogitations of loue, hauing passed ouer a long and tedious night without sleepe, through my barren fortune, and aduerse constellation, altogether vncomforted and sorrowfull, by means of my vntimely and not prosperous loue, weeping, I recounted from point to point, what a thing vnequall loue is: and how fitly one may loue that dooth not loue: and what defence there may bee made against the vnaccustomed, yet dayly assaults of loue: for a naked soule altogether vnarmed, the seditious strife, especially being intestine: a fresh still setting vpon with vnstable and new thoughts.