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Word: Plaintful
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late Middle English; earliest use found in Cursor Mundi: a Northumbrian poem of the 14th century. From plaint + -ful
Definition:
Full of complaint or lamentation; plaintive, mournful; (in early use also) †occasioning grief, lamentable (obsolete).
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