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"Sorrowful cry"2 answers
plaint6 letterslamenting9 letters
Filled answer is this word (PLAINT).
Definitions
a cry of sorrow and grief
Word origin
From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“lament”), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation”), pleint (“lament”) (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation”), from Latin plango (“to beat one's breast, to lament”); see plain.
Used in a sentence
“she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Sorrowful cry”6 letters
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