weeping

verb

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

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Action of the verb to weep.

   “Their constant weepings kept us awake.”

   “For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter.”