beweep

American

[bih-weep] / bɪˈwip /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

bewept, beweeping

to weep over (something).

to beweep one's foolish mistakes.

Etymology

Origin of beweep

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

Example Sentences

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When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope.

From Project Gutenberg

Beweep, be-wēp′, v.t. to weep over, to lament.—p.adj.

From Project Gutenberg

“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet, in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee,” &c.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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.

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