bewailing

English

Verb

bewailing

1. present participle and gerund of bewail

Noun

bewailing (plural bewailings)

1. The act of one who bewails something.
   • 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:

     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!

   • 1867, Annie Thomas, Called to Account:

     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.