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plaint - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A complaint.
- noun An utterance of grief or sorrow; a lamentation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lamentation; complaint; audible expression of sorrow; a sad or serious song.
- noun Representation made of injury or wrong done; complaint.
- noun In law: A statement of grievance made to a court for the purpose of asking redress.
- noun The first process in an inferior court, in the nature of original process.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.
- noun An accusation or protest on account of an injury.
- noun (Law) A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lament or woeful cry. - noun A
complaint . - noun An
accusation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed
- noun a cry of sorrow and grief
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French plainte, from Latin plānctus, lament, from past participle of plangere, to strike one's breast, lament; see plāk- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle English plainte, from Anglo-Norman plainte ("lamentation"), plaint ("lament"), and Old French pleinte ("lamentation"), pleint ("lament") (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta ("plaint"), Latin planctus ("a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation"), from Latin plangere ("to beat the breast, lament"); see plain.
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Examples
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About me is murmur and hum, and I know it for the gnat - swarm of the living, piping for a little space its thin plaint of troubled air.
Chapter 36 2010
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The usual plaint is the health care American style is very expensive, which is a simple fact.
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About me is murmur and hum, and I know it for the gnat - swarm of the living, piping for a little space its thin plaint of troubled air.
Chapter XXXVI 1913
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As the Bowery fete ably proves, Superdrag's back catalog is loaded with power-pop bullets-such as the cheerfully bitter post-major-label plaint "Keep It Close to Me"
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Job was not, in her view, rebellious; "his plaint was a relief to his own spirit, and an appeal for sympathy."
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone
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It begins with a plaint, that is full of cynic despair; thence it breaks suddenly into a cheerful andante.
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And all through the years, in trouble and in happiness, her plaint was the same -- "If I'd thought I was going to stick down on a farm all my life, slavin 'for a pack of menfolks day and night, I'd rather have died.
One Basket Edna Ferber 1926
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And all through the years, in trouble and in happiness, her plaint was the same: "If I'd thought I was going to stick down on a farm all my life, slavin 'for a pack of men folks day and night, I'd rather have died.
Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926
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"I simply can't walk, and you boys needn't demand it of me," was her plaint.
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So it is tempting to dismiss his dim view of contemporary pop as the all-too-typical plaint of an aging fan.
When the Music Stopped Michael Azerrad 2011
Related Words
synonyms (56)
Words with the same meaning
- accusal
- accusation
- accusing
- allegation
- allegement
- arraignment
- bawl
- bill of particulars
- blame
- bringing of charges
- bringing to book
- charge
- complaint
- count
- cry
- delation
- denouncement
- denunciation
- dolorous tirade
- groan
- howl
- impeachment
- implication
- imputation
- indictment
- information
- innuendo
- insinuation
- jeremiad
- keen
- lament
- lamentation
- lawsuit
- laying of charges
- moan
- murmur
- mutter
- outcry
- planctus
- prosecution
- reproach
- scream
- sob
- suit
- taxing
- tirade
- true bill
- ululation
- unspoken accusation
- veiled accusation
- wail
- wail of woe
- whimper
- whine
- yawp
- yowl
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