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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.]
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden.
2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. ``The
most plaintive ditty.'' --Landor. -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv
-- {Plain"tive*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
plaintively
adv : in a plaintive manner; "the last note of the song rang out
plaintively"
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