Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Causing weeping.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Producing tears.

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  • adjective obsolete, rare Producing tears.

Etymologies

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Latin fletifer; fletus a weeping (from flere, fletum, to weep) + ferre to bear.

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