beweep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːp
Forms: form: beweeps
form: beweeping
form: bewept
form: bewept
Etymology: From Middle English bewepen, biwepen, from Old English bewēpan (“to weep over, mourn, bewail”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwōpijan (“to weep over”), equivalent to be- + weep. Cognate with Old Frisian biwēpa (“to beweep”), Old Saxon biwōpian (“to beweep”).
Senses: examples: text: c. 1593, Michael Drayton, The Shepheards Garland, The Second Eglog, 2nd edition,
With Nymphs and shepheards yearly moane
His timeless death beweeping.
In telling that my hart alone
Hath his last will in keeping.
text: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him, plants and stones.
So shall she know your loss was dear indeed.
And bend her heart, and give you Balder back.
ref: 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part III, lines 44-46:
synonyms: word: bewail
word: bemoan
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To weep over; weep for; weep about; deplore; lament.
examples: text: Fast by her style doth wery labour stand./ Pale fere also, and sorrow all bewept
ref: c.''' 1500, Thomas More, To Them that Trust in Fortune:
text: Child! Arline! wilt thou? darest thou heap A stain thine after life will beweep, On these hairs by thee and sorrow bleach'd On this hear dishonour never reach'd.
ref: 1843, Alfred Bunn, The new grand opera In Three Acts of The Bohemian Girl., page 30:
text: And therefore saith Job to God, ' Suffer, Lord, that I may a while bewail and beweep, ere I go without returning to the dark land, covered with the darkness of death ; to the land of misease and of darkness, whereas is the shadow of death; whereas is no order nor ordinance, but grisly dread that ever shall last.'
ref: 1875, Charles Cowden Clarke, The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, with notes by T. Tyrwhitt., page 196:
text: Cinnamongirl: I am in disgrace in my fellow maidens' eyes and I do beweep alone in my outcast state.
ref: 2007, Cathy Hopkins, Starting Over, →ISBN:
text: Anyway, not wishing to speak too much of myself- for 'my Auschwitz adolescence to whom beweep?/ Since my Belsen boyhood sent all to sleep'- I'll just take a single incident from my childhood to show how, 'Midnight's children' fashion, I too changed history by Giving Saddam Hussein the idea for biological weapons.
ref: 2007, Vivek Iyer, Samlee's Daughter: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: How could I condemn a name that honours so many of my friends for whose distance or loss I now beweep?
ref: 2014, Vincenzo Cuoco, Bruce Haddock, Filippo Sabetti, Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, →ISBN, page 114:
synonyms: word: shed tears
word: beweep
word: burst into tears
word: cry
word: cry one's eyes out
word: greet
word: shed a tear
word: shed tears
word: squirt some
word: wail
word: weep
glosses: To weep.
Derived terms: beweeper