Definition of Bemoaning

1. Verb. (present participle of bemoan) ¹

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Definition of Bemoaning

1. bemoan [v] - See also: bemoan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemoaning

bemirror
bemist
bemisted
bemisting
bemists
bemittened
bemix
bemixed
bemixes
bemixing
bemixt
bemoan
bemoaned
bemoaner
bemoaners
bemoaning (current term)
bemoans
bemock
bemocked
bemocking
bemocks
bemoil
bemoiled
bemoiling
bemoils
bemoist'ning
bemoisten
bemoisten'd
bemoistened
bemoistening

Literary usage of Bemoaning

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

1. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... concerning négociations of state, and their several interests in the kingdom ; sadly bemoaning the fate of their deer and abhor"ed husbands. ..."

2. Sermons on Important Subjects by Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes, Thomas Gibbons (1841)
"have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thau hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, ..."

3. American Lands and Letters by Donald Grant Mitchell (1904)
"... too, there was a silent bemoaning of the lack of Hawthorne in 1862. From a photograph taken by ..."

4. Sermons by Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley, William Buell Sprague (1864)
"I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus ; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke ; turn thou me, ..."

5. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"You leave your wife examining the chair and bemoaning its injuries, and go into the kitchen and wash your skinned and bleeding hands with yellow soap. ..."

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