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wept

American  
[wept] / wɛpt /

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of weep.

wept British  
/ wɛpt /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of weep

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When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D Yalom It is 1882, just before the birth of psychoanalysis.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2017

One of these questioners is Chester Brown, a veteran cartoonist who has used scholarly research to come up with “Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and religious obedience in the Bible.”

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2016

That’s when I first encountered Jane Schaberg’s book The Illegitimacy of Jesus, which was important to the central ideas in Mary Wept.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016

Chester Brown’s Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus may be the most provocative comic book published this year.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016

The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish was the next novel.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

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