Plaint

Word PLAINT
Character 6
Hyphenation plaint
Pronunciations /pleɪnt/

Definitions and meanings of "Plaint"

What do we mean by plaint?

A complaint. noun

An utterance of grief or sorrow; a lamentation. noun

Lamentation; complaint; audible expression of sorrow; a sad or serious song. noun

Representation made of injury or wrong done; complaint. noun

In law: A statement of grievance made to a court for the purpose of asking redress. noun

The first process in an inferior court, in the nature of original process. noun

Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament. noun

An accusation or protest on account of an injury. noun

A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. noun

A lament or woeful cry. noun

A complaint. noun

An accusation. noun

(United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed noun

A cry of sorrow and grief noun

A lament or woeful cry.

A complaint.

A sad song.

An accusation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Plaint

The word "plaint" in example sentences

About me is murmur and hum, and I know it for the gnat - swarm of the living, piping for a little space its thin plaint of troubled air. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The usual plaint is the health care American style is very expensive, which is a simple fact. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the Bowery fete ably proves, Superdrag's back catalog is loaded with power-pop bullets-such as the cheerfully bitter post-major-label plaint "Keep It Close to Me" ❋ Unknown (2009)

Job was not, in her view, rebellious; "his plaint was a relief to his own spirit, and an appeal for sympathy." ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)

It begins with a plaint, that is full of cynic despair; thence it breaks suddenly into a cheerful andante. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

And all through the years, in trouble and in happiness, her plaint was the same -- "If I'd thought I was going to stick down on a farm all my life, slavin 'for a pack of menfolks day and night, I'd rather have died. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

And all through the years, in trouble and in happiness, her plaint was the same: "If I'd thought I was going to stick down on a farm all my life, slavin 'for a pack of men folks day and night, I'd rather have died. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

"I don't dare admire anything any more," was Mary's plaint. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I simply can't walk, and you boys needn't demand it of me," was her plaint. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He seems to be suggesting that Israel has usurped the voice of God by inscribing its national plaint into the minds of its subjects in the same way that God issues his spiritual injunction to his people. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nancy it was who began, for from no other man, I was confident, could have issued so sepulchral a plaint. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So it is tempting to dismiss his dim view of contemporary pop as the all-too-typical plaint of an aging fan. ❋ Michael Azerrad (2011)

And at such moments of contemplation, from her soul the inevitable plaint of the human went up: WHY? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Accompanying his statistics on the uninsured is the plaint that the U.S. spends a considerably larger fraction of its GDP on the health sector than any other country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is not a "they don't make them like they used to" plaint. ❋ Michele Willens (2011)

Americans have by now heard the plaint of a Toyota dealer in Florida who worries about his supply of the Prius, made in Japan. ❋ Joseph Sternberg (2011)

That's what I want to know, was Grief's contribution to the general plaint. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His unceasing plaint and movement was anything but sedative to my jangled nerves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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