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Webster 1913 Edition
Wayment
Way′ment
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Waymented
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waymenting
.] [OE.
waymenten
, OF. waimenter
, gaimenter
, guaimenter
, from wai
, guai
, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe
) and L. lamentari
to lament. See Lament
.] To lament; to grieve; to wail.
[Written also
waiment
.] [Obs.]
Thilke science . . . maketh a man to
waymenten
. Chaucer.
For what boots it to weep and
When ill is chanced?
wayment
,When ill is chanced?
Spenser.
Way′ment
,Noun.
Grief; lamentation; mourning.
[Written also
waiment
.] [Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wayment
WAYMENT
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
wayment
wayment
English
Alternative forms
Verb
wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)
- (obsolete) To lament.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase [...]?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i: