PLAINTIVE


Meaning of PLAINTIVE in English

adjective Etymology: Middle English plaintif grieving, from Anglo-French pleintif, plaintif, from plaint Date: 1579 expressive of suffering or woe ; melancholy , ~ly adverb ~ness noun

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