plaint
plaint · plaints
A complaintA complaint.
/pleɪnt/
Meaning
4 sensesA complaint.
(archaic, poetic)A lament or woeful cry.
a cry of sorrow and grief
(archaic)A sad song.
(UK, archaic)An accusation.
Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
Origin
From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“lament”), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation”), pleint (“lament”) (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation”), from Latin plango (“to beat one's breast, to lament”); see plain.
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Forms
plural: plaintsSynonyms
3 synonymsClose in meaning
- a cry of sorrow and grief:lamentlamentationwail