plaint

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Her black eyes grew soft, her lips parted slightly--with a sudden exuberance he caught her to him, and this time he held her so tensely that, although her plaint was the same, her tone was altogether different.

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  1. noun A complaint.
  2. noun An utterance of grief or sorrow; a lamentation.

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  • Job was not, in her view, rebellious; “his plaint was a relief to his own spirit, and an appeal for sympathy.” On chapter ix. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
  • The burden of his plaint was that horse traffic should be forbidden on the roads. —  Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 29
  • Spiraling notes over a harmonica's plaint, theme and variations unfolding like lace. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
  • One minor com-plaint: occasional anachronisms in the dialogue, most jarringly the modern term propaganda Deborah Crombie: Water Like a Stone, Morrow, $24.95. —  EQMM,August2007
  • He did it without com­plaint, and Hugues stepped forward to accept his well-worn gear with reverence. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
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  1. Middle English, from Old French plainte, from Latin plānctus, lament, from past participle of plangere, to strike one's breast, lament; see plāk-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English plainte, pleinte, pleynt, from OF.pleinte, French plainte = Provencal planch = Spanish llanto, Old Spanish pranto = Portuguese pranto = Italian pianto, from Middle Latin plancta, feminine, plaint, Latin planctus, a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation, from plangere, beat the breast, lament: see plain.
 

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