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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pleɪnt/
• 韻: -eɪnt

名詞

plaint (複数形 plaints)

1. A complaint.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’

2. (poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
   • 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 11:

     In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 75, [1]

     His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.

3. (archaic) A sad song.
4. (archaic or UK law) An accusation.

   Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.

関連する語

• complaint
• plaintiff
• plaintive

Further reading

• plaint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “plaint”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• -platin, Taplin, platin, pliant