[ad. L. querimōnia, f. querī to complain: cf. F. quérimonie (16th c.).] Complaint, complaining.

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1529.  in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1856), I. 217. By way of querimony and complaint.

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a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 239 b. The king … troubled with hys brothers dayly querimonye.

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1610.  Bp. Hall, Apol. Brownists, 39, marg. To which vniust accusation, and triuiall querimony, our most iust defence hath beene [etc.].

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1887.  Blackmore, Springhaven (ed. 4), I. viii. 61. The scholars of the Virgil class … had recovered from the querimonies of those two sons of Ovid.

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