bewailing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bewail

noun

1. The act of one who bewails something.

   “We might have been!—these are but common words, And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing; They are the echo of those finer chords, Whose music life deplores when unavailing, We might have been!”

   “No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again.”