Dictionary

bewailing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The act of one who bewails something.
   • No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again. 1867, Annie Thomas, Called to Account:
   • We might have been!—these are but common words, And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing; They are the echo of those finer chords, Whose music life deplores when unavailing, We might have been! 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 158:

Forms

bewailing en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of bewail
   form of bewail