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Definition of Weeping

Weeping

  1. of Weep
  2. The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
  3. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
  4. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.
  5. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
  6. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.

Weeping Quotations

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
Michael J. Fox
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Weeping Translations

weeping in French is pleurant
weeping in German is weinend, weinende, weinend
weeping in Latin is ploratio, lamentatio, ploratus

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