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noun

Plaint n.

Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament. "The Psalmist's mournful plaint."

An accusation or protest on account of an injury. "There are three just grounds of war with Spain: one of plaint, two upon defense."

(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.

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Etymology of 'Plaint'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plaint" Quotes from Famous Books

... begins with a stifled moan, like the moan of a bad dream,— mounts into a long, long wail, like a wailing of wind,—sinks quavering into a chuckle,—rises again to a wail, very much higher and wilder than before,—breaks suddenly into a kind of atrocious laughter,—and finally sobs itself out in a plaint like the crying of a little child. The ghastliness of the performance is chiefly—though not entirely—in the goblin mockery of the laughing tones as contrasted with the piteous agony of the wailing ones: an ...

— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... no one sings it as you do. And in the print store on Second Street there was a laughable picture of such a pretty, doleful Cupid shut out of doors in the cold, that I said to Harry, 'Mistress Primrose Henry sings the most cunning plaint I know, and you ...

— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... attention to this boyish plaint, for he was fumbling in the locker, then withdrew his hand and uncoiled an ordinary fish-line, with ...

— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

... the Premier has learned that practical politics is a game that taxes all a man's technique in Christianity. Autocratic Hydro and Mackenzie the loosening octopus; New Ontario preaching up the old plaint of secession; better roads and prodigal Mr. Biggs; what to do with Education that Cody had not started to do; how to stave off commissions on reform of the school system; the constant queues of moral reformers; the new menace of the movies and the censorship farce; the timber stealers; ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... a woman of my plaint complaining, If she was a woman at all half discreet, Would shudder to think every day she is maiming Her stomach with trash, and such ...

— Nothing to Eat • Horatio Alger [supposed]

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