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adj. Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy. [Middle English plaintif, from Old French, aggrieved, lamenting, from plaint, complaint; see plaint.] plain'tive·ly adv., plain'tive·ness n. |
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plaintive
1390, "lamenting," from O.Fr. plaintif "complaining," from pleint (see plaint). Sense of "mournful, sad" first recorded 1579.
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Plaintive
Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See Plaintiff, n.]1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." --Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
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