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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of complain.

Etymologies

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complain +‎ -est

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Examples

  • On thee my tongue doth fix no charge, as thou complainest; but justice is over all.

    Rhesus 2008

  • On thee my tongue doth fix no charge, as thou complainest; but justice is over all.

    Rhesus 2008

  • But I cannot stomach thy daintiness when thou complainest with such violence of grief and anxiety because thy happiness falls short of completeness.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • I have three of thy letters at once before me to answer; in each of which thou complainest of my silence; and in one of them tallest me, that thou canst not live without I scribble to thee every day, or every other day at least.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And looke how reasonable thou fanciest Sophronia, as unjustly thou complainest of thy fortune, in ordaining her to be my wife, although thou doest not speake it expresly: as being of opinion, that thou mightst with more honesty love her, if she were any others, then mine.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • What was the state and condition of thy soul before thou fellest into the entanglements of that sin which now thou so complainest of?

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

  • Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil?

    Daily Strength for Daily Needs Mary W. Tileston

  • The merchants set up a weeping and wailing, and made much useless lamentation and complaint: -- "Whether thou supplicatest them, or whether thou complainest, the robbers will not return thee their plunder": -- all but that ragged wretch, who stood collected within himself, and unmoved by this adventure.

    The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Various

  • Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil?

    Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Various

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