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

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

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

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

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

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 Joyce, James

Larded with sweet Flowers: Which bewept to the graue did not go, With true-loue showres    King.

From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William

And he continued to weep and wail over his separation; whilst the Fireman also bewept the loss of his wife, yet ceased not to comfort Zau al-Makan till morning dawned.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

King Saman-lāl-pōsh—Jessamine, wearer of rubies—had so bewept the loss of his sons that he was now blind.

From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

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)