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come home by weeping cross

come home by weeping cross verb: to return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.

Verb

come home by weeping cross (third-person singular simple present comes home by weeping cross, present participle coming home by weeping cross, simple past came home by weeping cross, past participle come home by weeping cross)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.
    • Those that will try experiments, smart for it in the issue. Solomon came home by weeping-cross: Eccles. i. 14, 'I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'c. 1677, Thomas Manton, Several Sermons Upon the CXIX Psalm, Sermon I
    • This was a fine Rhodomontade, but it fail'd in the Execution: For, making an irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross.1744, Spanish Rhodomontades, Pierre de Bourdeille, tr. John Ozell.

Forms of come home by weeping cross

third-person singular presentcomes home by weeping cross
present participlecoming home by weeping cross
pastcame home by weeping cross
past participlecome home by weeping cross

Origin of come home by weeping cross

From a common English placename indicating the former site of a stone cross.

Questions about come home by weeping cross

What does come home by weeping cross mean?
Come home by weeping cross means to return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.
What part of speech is come home by weeping cross?
Come home by weeping cross is a verb.
What is the past tense of come home by weeping cross?
The past tense of come home by weeping cross is came home by weeping cross.

Words near come home by weeping cross in the dictionary

  1. come hell or high water
  2. come here to me
  3. come high
  4. come hither
  5. come home
  6. come home by weeping cross
  7. come home to roost
  8. come in
  9. come in for
  10. come in from the cold
  11. come in handy

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