waymenting

English

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    English wayment
    English -ing
    English waymenting

    From wayment +‎ -ing.

    Verb

    waymenting

    1. present participle and gerund of wayment

    Noun

    waymenting (plural waymentings)

    1. (obsolete) Lamentation.
      • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.4:
        for their lost husbands they encrease their waymentings by repetition of the good and gracefull parts they were endowed with […].
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