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Wayment
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.