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2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)
Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden.
Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
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