|
|
Definition of Plaining
1. n. Complaint.
2. a. Complaining.
Definition of Plaining
1. Verb. (present participle of plain) ¹
2. Noun. A lamentation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plaining
1. plain [v] - See also: plain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plaining
Literary usage of Plaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1902)
"Utter from Colonels Cortlandt, Gansevoort and Weissenfels, Cwn- plaining of
Neglect of Duty in Captain Wiley, Agent to Procure ..."
2. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... by which a very grievous, and we apprehend unconstitutional tax is to be laid
upon the colonies. plaining of arbitrary and unconstitutional innovation«, ..."
3. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"plaining that they had not their due number of settlers, and that several who
were not of their community, had crept in among them, and were conducting ..."
4. A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land by Alphonse de Lamartine (1838)
"... Then from the wood I pulled th' unbroken bark ; I blew within—and soon beneath
my touch A soft and plaining note sighed through the shade. ..."
Other Resources:
Basque