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

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 Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

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 Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton

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

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

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

And, what though murdered and betrayed, bewept by all frail tender hearts for, Dane or Dubliner, sorrow for the dead is the only husband from whom they refuse to be divorced.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

White his shroud as the mountain-snow, Larded all with sweet flowers;11 Which bewept to the grave did go With true-love showers.

From Hamlet by Charles John Kean

Mary Virginia had gone, weeping and bewept, and the spirit of youth seemed to have gone with her, leaving the Parish House darkened because of its absence.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

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

She gan bewail the stalwart Iring and bewept his wounds, indeed her grief was passing sharp.

From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway

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