Crossword clues for deplored
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deplore \De*plore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deplored; p. pr. & vb. n. Deploring.] [L. deplorare; de- + plorare to cry out, wail, lament; prob. akin to pluere to rain, and to E. flow: cf. F. d['e]plorer. Cf. Flow.]
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To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss.
--Milton.As some sad turtle his lost love deplores.
--Pope. To complain of. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.]
--Bacon.Syn: To Deplore, Mourn, Lament, Bewail, Bemoan.
Usage: Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: deplore)
Usage examples of "deplored".
But on these lands, and on the ruins of Pagan superstition, the Christians had frequently erected their own religious edifices: and as it was necessary to remove the church before the temple could be rebuilt, the justice and piety of the emperor were applauded by one party, while the other deplored and execrated his sacrilegious violence.
But in less than thirty years, this numerous and increasing family was reduced to the persons of Constantius and Julian, who alone had survived a series of crimes and calamities, such as the tragic poets have deplored in the devoted lines of Pelops and of Cadmus.
Athanasius himself, who did not disdain to compose the life of his friend Antony, has carefully observed how often the holy monk deplored and prophesied the mischiefs of the Arian heresy Athanas.
They deplored the hard condition of Athanasius, who, after enjoying so many years his seat, his reputation, and the seeming confidence of his sovereign, was again called upon to confute the most groundless and extravagant accusations.
With outstretched arms, and pathetic lamentations, they loudly deplored their past misfortunes and their present danger.
The Arian subjects of Theodosius deplored the loss of their churches.
Two poets of unequal fame have deplored, in similar circumstances, the loss of their patrimony.
The bishop of Hippo at length deplored the fall of his friend, who, after a solemn vow of chastity, had married a second wife of the Arian sect, and who was suspected of keeping several concubines in his house.
The nations, who were strangers or enemies to Aetius, generously deplored the unworthy fate of a hero: the Barbarians, who had been attached to his service, dissembled their grief and resentment: and the public contempt, which had been so long entertained for Valentinian, was at once converted into deep and universal abhorrence.
Ambrose has deplored the ruin of a populous district, which had been once adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia.
Seneca, from his own experience, has deplored and exaggerated the miserable state of Corsica, ^97 and the plenty of Sardinia was overbalanced by the unwholesome quality of the air.
No sooner did the tumult subside, than the Christian populace deplored their sacrilegious rashness.
The Arians deplored the ruin of their church, triumphant above a century in Africa.
As the excuse of his cruelty, he sometimes condescended to observe, that the fears of the Persians would be productive of hatred, and that their hatred must terminate in rebellion but he forgot that his own guilt and folly had inspired the sentiments which he deplored, and prepared the event which he so justly apprehended.
The disgrace of the former was pleasing to the public: but the murmurs, and at length the clamors, of Constantinople deplored the exile of Zoe, the daughter of so many emperors.