bemoaning

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Verb[edit]

bemoaning

  1. present participle and gerund of bemoan

Noun[edit]

bemoaning (plural bemoanings)

  1. the moaning or lamentation of one who bemoans (something).
    • 1829, Baptist Magazine and Literary Review, volume 21, page 431:
      You may be well assured, that these distressing bemoanings were met with every soothing expression which the deepest interest, so strongly excited, could suggest.