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waiment

waiment is the obsolete form of wayment.

Meaning of wayment

Verb

wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To lament.
    • For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […]?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Forms of waiment

third-person singular presentwaiments
present participlewaimenting
past participlewaimented
pastwaimented

Questions about waiment

What is waiment the obsolete form of?
Waiment is the obsolete form of wayment.

Words near waiment in the dictionary

  1. Waimate
  2. Waimate North
  3. Waimea
  4. Waimea phyllostegia
  5. Waimea pipturus
  6. waiment
  7. waimented
  8. waimenting
  9. waiments
  10. Waimoa
  11. wain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waiment (page history and authors); wayment (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.

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