beweep

American  

[bih-weep] / bɪˈwip /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

bewept, beweeping

1. to weep over (something).

   to beweep one's foolish mistakes.

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Etymology

Origin of beweep

before 1000; Middle English bewepen, Old English bewēpan. See be-, weep ¹

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Example Sentences

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beweep beweeping bewept

Carter works with Reagan to maintain U.S. foreign policy When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries...

From Time Magazine Archive

Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes, And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.

From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

Let all that lives and moves upon the earth Weep him, and all that is without life weep; Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him; plants and stones!

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

Moreover, becoming a priest, he would still, whenas he celebrated mass at the altar, an he were seen of many, beweep our Saviour's passion, as one whom tears cost little, whenas he willed it.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

Let all that lives and moves upon the earth Weep him, and all that is without life weep; Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him; plants and stones.

From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

So the "Indians" of the New World never meet after long parting without beweeping mutual friends they have lost.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Yet haue mine eies quite drawne their Conduits drie By long beweeping my disastred harmes.

From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Mary Sidney Herbert

Hark, in Ramah is heard lamentation  15 And bitterest weeping, Rachel beweeping her children, And will not be comforted,648 For they are not.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith

I betook the book to their campfire, howadji, and I smote upon my breast and I bewept me and I wailed aloud and I would not make comfort.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various

So composed was her manner, so calmly happy, that Captain Stuart could not forbear to unmask the sham, and let the poor man know how he had been bewept yesterday at even.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree

Once or twice, in an interval of semi-delirium, he bewept the ruin not only of his business, but of himself and of his family and of all his belongings.

From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller

The mortal Don Quixote, in dying, realized his own comicness and bewept his sins; but the immortal Quixote, realizing his own comicness, superimposes himself upon it and triumphs over it without renouncing it.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

And, though there's no doubt he bewept her, She is still in her yellow-hued tomb, Her unhallowed, Hallowe'en tomb And ever since Peter side-stepped her, He calls her his lost Lulalume, His Pumpkin-entombed Lulalume.

From The Re-echo Club by Carolyn Wells

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