The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bewail \Be*wail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bewailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bewailing.] 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.
Bewailing \Be*wail"ing\, a. Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who bewails something. vb. (present participle of bewail English)
Usage examples of "bewailing".
And she drenched her bosom with ceaseless tears, which flowed in torrents as she sat, bitterly bewailing her own fate.
Having made this unsuccessful inquiry, she pretended to shed a flood of tears, bewailing her own fate, in being near the person of any lady who met with such a misfortune, by which, she observed, her character might be called in question.
Meanwhile Cressida, among the Greeks, was bewailing the refusal of her father to let her return, the certainty that her lover would think her false, and the hopelessness of any attempt to steal away by night.
He then released his captive companions, and, while they were bewailing their lack of weapons, Kunhild stealthily opened the door.
But while the English were taking unarmed vessels, and calculating their profits, and the Prussians were bewailing their misfortunes and dressing their wounds, I alone had to wage war and ingloriously to shed the blood of my poor soldiers for a cause that was hardly the cause of Russia.
The omission of what never was in our power cannot cause remorse, and the bewailing what never can become in our power cannot afford comfort.
She suppressed, however, the desire, though she held them alternately to her eyes, conjecturing their contents, and bewailing for their impassioned writer the cruel answer they must receive.
He walked grimly to camp bewailing his lost opportunity, and devising all kinds of schemes to recover it.
The forsaken princess of the Angles, instead of bewailing, revenged her disgrace.
Saracens, bewailing their fault with tears of rage and repentance, called aloud on their chiefs to lead them forth to fight the battles of the Lord.
Bewailing her sorrowful doom, Bewailing her trouble so sore, For old Mr Fox is no more.
The bewailings of scaramouch, the dull and spiritless despair of Fastidio, offered a picture which would have made me laugh heartily if the danger had been imaginary and not real.
The bewailings of scaramouch, the dull and spiritless despair of Fastidio, offered a picture which would have made me laugh heartily if the danger had been imaginary and not real.
These bewailings grew less vehement as his letters became shorter and arrived at longer intervals.