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English
Etymology
From be- (“around, about, over”) + grieve.
Verb
begrieve (third-person singular simple present begrieves, present participle begrieving, simple past and past participle begrieved)
- (transitive, archaic, rare) To grieve over or about.
- Synonyms: bewail, lament; see also Thesaurus:lament
1930, William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust:[…] and the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the second who do begrieve Lucas's shameful condition and would improve it […]
1989, Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe, Economy and Culture in the Baltic, 1650-1700:He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers. Near Namur on the Meuse he describes a hermits' lodge carved in stone with the internal movable contrivance representing the Passion.
1989, Cedric Gael Bryant, Race, Gender, and Metaphor in Five Major Novels by William Faulkner:The logical inconsistency of "begrieving" a shameful condition, while postponing its abolition is the fundamental fault Baldwin finds with Faulkner's racial politics and white southern liberalism generally.
2000, Lewis Burke Frumkes, Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough, page 128:"There lies Jack Spratt; alas, he could eat no more fat. And beside him his fat wife who used to lick the platter clean. Ah, it begrieves me to see them here."
2009, Kathryn L. Pringle, Right New Biology, page 61:[…] a whisper is the spectacle of ache
is apparatus in this all worn libido
stricken fixer : obligate bleeder
begrieving that regal population before nothing CONSTRUCT
inhales reservations we has PLACE […]
- (transitive, archaic, rare) To cause grief or grieving.
- Synonyms: begloom, deject; see also Thesaurus:sadden
1996, Cameron Judd, Passage to Natchez, page 229:It was begrieving to see how the intrusion of even a smattering of pride and moral standards could impede on what had always been a carefree, shiftless life.