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make moan en · VERB
Meanings
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(Scotland, poetic) To lament, complain.
when, too late awaking, well they kent / That their fayre guest was gone, they both begonne / To make exceeding mone, as they had been undonne.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:These yellow cowslip cheeks / Are gone, are gone. Lovers, make moan.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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(poetic) To moan, to make a moaning sound.
I made a garland for her head, / And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; / She looked at me as she did love, / And made sweet moan.
1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad:In the bleak mid-winter / Frosty wind made moan, / Earth stood hard as iron, / Water like a stone […]
1872, Christina Rossetti, In the Bleak Midwinter:
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