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waymenting

waymenting is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

waymenting (plural waymentings)

  1. (obsolete) Lamentation.
    • for their lost husbands they encrease their waymentings by repetition of the good and gracefull parts they were endowed with […].1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.4

Forms of waymenting

pluralwaymentings

Origin of waymenting

From wayment + -ing.

Questions about waymenting

What does waymenting mean?
Waymenting means lamentation.
What is waymenting the present participle and gerund of?
Waymenting is the present participle and gerund of wayment.
What part of speech is waymenting?
Waymenting is a noun.
What is the plural of waymenting?
The plural of waymenting is waymentings.

Words near waymenting in the dictionary

  1. waymasters
  2. waymate
  3. waymates
  4. wayment
  5. waymented
  6. waymenting
  7. waymentings
  8. wayments
  9. Waymire
  10. Waymires
  11. Waymo

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