beweep

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Definition of beweep

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verb

  1. (transitive)To weep over; weep for; weep about; deplore; lament.
    “c. 1593, Michael Drayton, The Shepheards Garland, The Second Eglog, 2nd edition, With Nymphs and shepheards yearly moane His timeless death beweeping. In telling that my hart alone Hath his last will in keeping.”
    “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state”
    “Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him, plants and stones. So shall she know your loss was dear indeed. And bend her heart, and give you Balder back.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To weep over; weep for; weep about; deplore; lament.
    “c. 1593, Michael Drayton, The Shepheards Garland, The Second Eglog, 2nd edition, With Nymphs and shepheards yearly moane His timeless death beweeping. In telling that my hart alone Hath his last will in keeping.”
    “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state”
    “Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him, plants and stones. So shall she know your loss was dear indeed. And bend her heart, and give you Balder back.”
  2. (intransitive)To weep.
    “Fast by her style doth wery labour stand./ Pale fere also, and sorrow all bewept”
    “Child! Arline! wilt thou? darest thou heap A stain thine after life will beweep, On these hairs by thee and sorrow bleach'd On this hear dishonour never reach'd.”
    “And therefore saith Job to God, ' Suffer, Lord, that I may a while bewail and beweep, ere I go without returning to the dark land, covered with the darkness of death ; to the land of misease and of darkness, whereas is the shadow of death; whereas is no order nor ordinance, but grisly dread that ever shall last.'”
    “Cinnamongirl: I am in disgrace in my fellow maidens' eyes and I do beweep alone in my outcast state.”
    “Anyway, not wishing to speak too much of myself- for 'my Auschwitz adolescence to whom beweep?/ Since my Belsen boyhood sent all to sleep'- I'll just take a single incident from my childhood to show how, 'Midnight's children' fashion, I too changed history by Giving Saddam Hussein the idea for biological weapons.”

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Etymology

From Middle English bewepen, biwepen, from Old English bewēpan (“to weep over, mourn, bewail”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwōpijan (“to weep over”), equivalent to be- + weep. Cognate with Old Frisian biwēpa (“to beweep”), Old Saxon biwōpian (“to beweep”).

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