Crossword clues for weeping
weeping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weep \Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wept (w[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping.] [OE. wepen, AS. w[=e]pan, from w[=o]p lamentation; akin to OFries. w?pa to lament, OS. w[=o]p lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. [=o]p a shouting, crying, OS. w[=o]pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. [oe]pa, Goth. w[=o]pjan. [root]129.]
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Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck.
--Acts xx. 37.Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
--Mitford.And eyes that wake to weep.
--Mrs. Hemans.And they wept together in silence.
--Longfellow. To lament; to complain. ``They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.''
--Num. xi. 1-
3. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
The blood weeps from my heart.
--Shak. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
Weeping \Weep"ing\, n. The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Weeping \Weep"ing\, a.
Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. ``Weeping eyes.''
--I. Watts.Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. ``Weeping grounds.''
--Mortimer.Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
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Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
Weeping cross, a cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence.
Weeping rock, a porous rock from which water gradually issues.
Weeping sinew, a ganglion. See Ganglion, n., 2. [Colloq.]
Weeping spring, a spring that discharges water slowly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English, present participle adjective from weep (v.). Used of various trees whose branches arch downward and suggest drooping, such as weeping elm (c.1600); weeping cherry (1824). Weeping willow (French saule pleureur, German trauerweide) is recorded from 1731. The tree is native to Asia; the first brought to England were imported 1748, from the Euphrates. It replaced the cypress as a funerary emblem.
Wiktionary
n. (non-gloss definition: Action of the verb to weep.) vb. (present participle of weep English)
WordNet
adj. showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
"Weeping" is an anti- apartheid protest song written by Dan Heymann in the mid-1980s, and first recorded by Heymann and the South African group Bright Blue in 1987. The song was a pointed response to the 1985 State of Emergency declared by President P.W. Botha, which resulted in "large-scale killings of unarmed and peaceful demonstrators against racial discrimination and segregation in the Union of South Africa.” Defiantly, the song incorporated part of the melody to Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, the anthem of the anti-apartheid African National Congress. "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" was banned at the time, and inclusion of even the melody violated the law. Today, "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" is part of the national anthem of South Africa. The formerly illegal lyrics—"Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo"—are now often sung when "Weeping" is recorded or performed.
In 1999, "Weeping" was voted “All-time favorite South African Song” by the readers of the South African Rock Encyclopedia.
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.