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Meanings of bewail in English

Portuguese
queixar-se
Catalan
sentir
Spanish
sentir

To express deep sorrow for.

        queixar-se
        Usage of bewail in English
        1
        However, I am not interested in hearing you bewail our changed circumstances.
        Outpost
        2
        The gods will welcome me; there is nothing to bewail in death.
        Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
        3
        Thou must again bewail him, again must weep for him another year.
        Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose
        4
        Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
        Feminist dot com
        5
        Whoever yet saw any but thee bewail the consummation of his desire?
        The Decameron, Volume I
        6
        And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail themselves because of him.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament
        7
        Then all the court began to bewail, and the captain most of all.
        Popular Tales from the Norse
        8
        That the son should bewail his fate were a dishonour to the sire.
        The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
        9
        Then spake the fierce Hagen: Forsooth I wot not what ye now bewail.
        The Nibelungenlied
        10
        This many a high-born maid must needs bewail in later times.
        The Nibelungenlied
        11
        But not the less did he bewail him for his country.
        The Story of the Odyssey
        12
        These, then, let us bewail; for such bewailing may be useful.
        The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01: Basil to Calvin
        13
        Armstrong was not the man to bewail his luck for long.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        14
        Thus we groan under life, and bewail those who are relieved from it.
        Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
        15
        Reader, bewail thy country's loss in the death of Henry Campion.
        Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End
        16
        Think only of yourself, and those who might bewail your death.
        The Tiger Hunter
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