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Bewailing vs Lamenting - What's the difference?

bewailing | lamenting | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between bewailing and lamenting

is that bewailing is present participle of bewail while lamenting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between bewailing and lamenting

is that bewailing is the act of one who bewails something while lamenting is lamentation.

bewailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who bewails something.
  • * 1867 , Annie Thomas, Called to Account
    • No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again.

    lamenting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • lamentation
  • * Shakespeare
    • The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death

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