beˈwailment
[f. bewail + -ment.]
A bewailing, a lamentation.
| 1607 Beaumont Wom. Hater iii. i. Wks. 477 These lamentations, these lowsie love-layes, these bewailements. 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 33 A general bewailment of the ‘inconsistency’..of human nature. |