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

Example Sentences

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 Shakespeare, William

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 Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

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 Arnold, Matthew

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 Payne, John