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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wailful \Wail"ful\, a.
Sorrowful; mournful. `` Like wailful widows.'' --Spenser.
``Wailful sonnets.'' --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wailful
adj : vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners";
"the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her
desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: {lamenting},
{wailing}]
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