Definition of Groanings

1. Noun. (plural of groaning) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Groanings

1. groaning [n] - See also: groaning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Groanings

grizzly bear
grizzly bears
grlzzly
gro
groEL
groan
groane
groaned
groaner
groaners
groanes
groaneth
groanful
groaning
groaningly
groanings (current term)
groans
groanworthy
groat
groats
grobian
grocer
grocer's
grocer's itch
grocerant
grocerants
groceraunt
groceraunts
groceries
grocers

Literary usage of Groanings

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"4) of the revelation disclosed to the human soul in the divine word, and the "groanings which can not 3. The be uttered" (Rom. viii. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... shake their eads, and look doubtfully at one another, unable to distinguish a single word intelligible to them of all his lengthened groanings. ..."

3. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"The tnie and eminent grounds of a Christians groanings afier dissolution, severed from the false grounds of other men.—That a Christian doth not desire ..."

4. California Jurisprudence: A Complete Statement of the Law and Practice of by William Mark McKinney (1922)
"Such expressions may take any form,—inarticulate, as in groanings; articulate, as in exclamations, or more detailed statement summarized as complaints, ..."

5. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"The whole Beranek family baths itself on Saturday nights in the bath-room adjoining my "apartment," and does it with unspeakable groanings. ..."

6. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1860)
"as the great object which they and their fathers have sought with groanings which cannot be uttered. Who can wonder that they have been a people willing in ..."

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