[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The utterance of wails; loud lamentation, mourning.
1485. Caxton, St. Wenefr., 3. The fader & moder … desyred to make bewaillynges.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. I. 93. With great heauinesse, inestimable dolours and bewailings.
1635. Wither, Lord’s Prayer (1665), 82. Else his bewailings had not proceeded from true compassion.
