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Definition of Complains
1. complain [v] - See also: complain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complains
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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