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.
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vb. (present participle of deplore English)
Usage examples of "deploring".
One day when I was reproaching him for his unavailing searches, and deploring the prostration of mind that followed them, he looked at me, and, smiling bitterly, opened a volume relating to the History of the City of Rome.
And now, when she was weeping at his feet and deploring the sin of the dinner party,-- which, after all, was a trifling sin,--he could not comprehend the feelings which were actuating her.
Admiring his friend's audacity, deploring his rashness, reproving his persistency, Potts allowed his verdict to go by results.
But I would wager all my pin money that it will not be long before he does something truly dreadful," her eyes sparkled at the thought of it '--and we are all deploring him for a villain!
Indeed, I imagine he would be particularly glad to officiate at my wedding since he has been deploring my bachelor life this age!
The defeat of the Sicilian tyrant was easy, his punishment just, and his beauteous head was exposed in the hippodrome: but I cannot applaud the clemency of a prince, who, among a crowd of victims, condemned the son of a patrician, for deploring with some bitterness the execution of a virtuous father.
Instead of conspiring against the life or government of her son, she retired, without a struggle, though not without a murmur, to the solitude of private life, deploring the ingratitude, the vices, and the inevitable ruin, of the worthless youth.
A few men, the least impressed of all by the scene, pronounced a discourse, some deploring this premature death, others expatiating on the grief of the father, and one very ingenious person quoting the fact that Valentine had solicited pardon of her father for criminals on whom the arm of justice was ready to fall -- until at length they exhausted their stores of metaphor and mournful speeches.
Monostatos, deploring the fact that love should be denied him because of his color, though enjoyed by everything else in nature, attempts to steal a kiss.
Her explosion fell on the head of Phineas Finn, whom she found at home with his wife, deploring the necessity which had fallen upon him of filling the faineant office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.