DEPLORE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope.

2.
v.

To complain of. [Obs.] Shak.

3.
v.

To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.] Bacon.

4.
v.

To lament. Gray.