waymenting

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    English wayment
    English -ing
    English waymenting

    wayment +‎ -ing

    Verb

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    waymenting

    1. present participle and gerund of wayment

    Noun

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    waymenting (plural waymentings)

    1. (obsolete) Lamentation.
      • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.4:
        for their lost husbands they encrease their waymentings by repetition of the good and gracefull parts they were endowed with […].
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