weeping

noun

weeping

noun

/ˈwiːpɪŋ/

Etymology Inherited from Middle English wepynge.

1

Action of the verb to weep.

Their constant weepings kept us awake.
For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter.2013, Peter McAra, A World Apart, page 14:

Derived terms: come home by weeping cross, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, weeping angel, weeping ash, weeping birch, weeping fig, weeping oak, weeping rock, weeping snow gum, weeping spring, weeping spruce, weeping tile, weeping tree, weeping willow

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