Obs. exc. poet. [f. prec. vb.] Complaining, complaint.

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c. 1485.  Digby Myst. (1882), IV. 1124. It is bot in vayn Thus remedilesse to mak compleyn.

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1820.  Keats, Lamia, I. 288. The amorous promise of her lone complain.

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