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Plaint

//pleɪnt// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a cry of sorrow and grief wordnet
  3. 3
    A lament or woeful cry. archaic, poetic

    "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."

  4. 4
    (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed wordnet
  5. 5
    A sad song. archaic
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  1. 6
    An accusation. UK, archaic

    "Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it."

Etymology

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 (“I beat the breast, I lament”); see plain.

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