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In some senses, plaint is marked as archaic, poetic, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
plaint
/pleɪnt/
noun 4
Collocations
3ADJ.
feeble, perceptible
VERB + PLAINT
echoed
PLAINT + NOUN
grass-stalk, moment
Definitions
noun
1
A complaint.
she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
2
A lament or woeful cry.
In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.
His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
3
A sad song.
4
An accusation.
Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
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Synonyms
noun — a cry of sorrow and grief
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
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In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.
Wiktionary03
His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
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