a. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] Fit or proper to be bewailed; lamentable.
1611. Cotgr., Larmoyable, bewaylable, lamentable, wofull, worthie of teares.
1757. Richardson, in Mrs. Barbauld, Life (1804), IV. 158. Tho’ the consequences … are so very bewailable.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 187. The Hebrew ladies … reckoned their virginity a bewailable condition.
