Word.ws English Dictionary

bewaileth

bewaileth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bewail.

Meaning of bewail

Verb

bewail (third-person singular simple present bewails, present participle bewailing, simple past and past participle bewailed)

  1. To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.
    • […] Though in this city he
      Hath widow’d and unchilded many a one,
      Which to this hour bewail the injury,
      Yet he shall have a noble memory.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Origin of bewaileth

bewail + -eth

Questions about bewaileth

What is bewaileth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bewaileth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bewail.

Words near bewaileth in the dictionary

  1. bewailable
  2. bewailed
  3. bewailer
  4. bewailers
  5. bewailest
  6. bewaileth
  7. bewailing
  8. bewailingly
  9. bewailings
  10. bewailment
  11. bewailments

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bewaileth (page history and authors); bewail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bewaileth.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bewaileth. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.