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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
moan .
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Examples
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And who is yonder man, that moaneth piteously in the gateway?
The Suppliants 2008
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And the turtle-dove reneweth all as oft as moaneth she:
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And who is yonder man, that moaneth piteously in the gateway?
The Suppliants 2008
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Day, whilst the Bird of the Tamarisk (the dove) moaneth like the childless Mother, whilst the West-wind bloweth gently over the
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Hark to the swollen river, how it moaneth in its flow,
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Some man complaineth more that death doth hinder him from the assured course of a hoped for victorie, than of death it selfe; another cries out, he should give place to her, before he have married his daughter, or directed the course of his childrens bringing up; another bewaileth he must forgoe his wives company; another moaneth the losse of his children, the chiefest commodities of his being.
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And then he groaneth and moaneth and waileth and struggleth, but he neither may rise nor help himself by no manner of way.
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Only she won't go away; and she moaneth worse than all the owls and ghosts.
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The brand of black devil is there -- an evil wind moaneth around --
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860
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My heart must ever dwell on the memories of your tribe; * And the turtle-dove reneweth all as oft as moaneth she:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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