[f. BEWAIL + -MENT.] A bewailing, a lamentation.
1607. Beaumont, Wom. Hater, III. i. Wks. 477. These lamentations, these lowsie love-layes, these bewailements.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 33/2. A general bewailment of the ‘inconsistency’ … of human nature.
