Definition of Complains

1. Verb. (third-person singular of complain) ¹

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Definition of Complains

1. complain [v] - See also: complain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complains

complacential
complacently
complain
complainable
complainant
complainants
complainaunt
complained
complainer
complainers
complainest
complaineth
complaining
complaining(a)
complainingly
complains
complaint
complaintful
complaintive
complaints
complaisance
complaisances
complaisant
complaisantly
complaisantness
complaisaunce
complanadine
complanar
compleat
compleated

Literary usage of Complains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1842)
"Continues to improve, but complains of her mouth being very sore. ... Complains of purging and griping, and great pain in the abdomen, which, however, ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"... inferior in dignity to her first hus- thew complains that his son Thomas, discarded band, it would appear that the licence of the sovereign is front ..."

3. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... of Parties—President's Proclamation to Resisters of Excise Law—Marshall's Statements—Jefferson complains of English Impressments— Complains to Spain of ..."

4. The Missions and Missionaries of California by Zephyrin Engelhardt (1913)
"Fr. Duran Complains to Figueroa.—Distribution of the Friars.—Fr. Garcia Diego's Circular on Flogging.—Fr. Gutierrez on the Same Subject. ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1898)
"and Hume in April 1772 complains that he was ' cutting himself off entirely from human society.' In 1772 his friend William Pul- teney recommended him to ..."

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