Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of weeping; mournful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.
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- adjective obsolete Full of
weeping orlamentation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am now reduced to the condition of a weepful Niobe, utterly helpless to contend against the sad trend of events.
Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick
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I daresay the same sort of reader admires both: the high-school girl first seized by amorous tremors, the obese multipara in her greasy kimono, the remote and weepful farm-wife.
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It seemed as if I had a new lover, one who needed encouragement, one who made a goddess of me, in the place of the almost too bold gallant who had been mine; and lo! when he suddenly comes on me with all his pristine assurance and seeming contempt for the weepful things I mentioned above, I don't like it at all.
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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