beweep
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of beweep
before 1000; Middle English bewepen, Old English bewēpan. See be-, weep 1
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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.
From Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by Wilmot-Buxton, E. M. (Ethel Mary)
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)
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
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 Herbert, Mary Sidney
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 Smith, George Adam, Sir
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
With great fidelity she bewept the knight full oft.
From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier
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 Kean, Charles John
I once was told of one that died broken hearted; a great beauty, and much bewept by all the maudlin moralizers that knew her.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas
White his shroud as the mountain snow, Larded with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the grave did go With true-love showers.
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
By this time Mrs. Fleming had dissolved into tears and buried her face in an already much bewept pocket-handkerchief.
From Bessie Bradford's Prize by Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe)
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