Also 3 bimening. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] Lamentation, wailing, grief loudly expressed.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2484. He ðer abiden, And bi-mening for iacob deden.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 534. The kyng … Wolde … make bymenyng Of his wyves misdoyng.
1592. Greene, Poems, 41. Send forth winter in her rusty weed To wail my bemoanings.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., III. 434. The Samaritane … did not express his Pity in idle and unprofitable Bemoanings.
1870. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xxv. 7. Sincere penitents … are constrained to use many bemoanings.
