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  1.  One who bewails or laments.

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1614.  R. Tailor, Hog hath lost Pearl, IV. in Dodsley (1780), VI. 433. O blest bewailer of thy misery!

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1710.  R. Ward, Life H. More, 186. A great bewailer of the late troublesome times.

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1851.  Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., 2. Bewailers for their Italy enchained.

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  2.  Zool. A species of monkey, the white-throated Sajou, also called Weeper.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. VII. i. 508. Called … the Bewailer, from its peculiar manner of lamenting.

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