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plaint.

A complaint.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/pleɪnt/UK

  1. A complaint.

  2. A lament or woeful cry.

    archaic · poetic

  3. A sad song.

    archaic

  4. An accusation.

    UK · archaic
    Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
Where this word comes from

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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