Bemoaning ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] Lamenting, miserably plaintive. Hence Bemoaningly adv.

1639.  Fuller, Holy War, II. vii. (1840), 57. Sending his bemoaning letters to Boemund prince of Antioch. Ibid. (1655), Hist. Camb. (1840), 173. A bemoaning letter to king Henry.

1647.  J. Mayne, Serm. (1647), 38. You, Sir, who have … thus bemoaningly pitied our divisions.