Plaint Definition

plānt
plaints
noun
plaints
Lamentation; lament.
Webster's New World
A complaint or grievance.
Webster's New World

(archaic or UK law) An accusation.

Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
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Other Word Forms of Plaint

Noun

Singular:
plaint
Plural:
plaints

Origin of Plaint

  • Middle English plainte, from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation"), plaint (“lament"), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation"), pleint (“lament") (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint"), Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation"), from Latin plangere (“to beat the breast, lament"); see plain.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French plainte from Latin plānctus lament from past participle of plangere to strike one's breast, lament plāk-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Plaint Sentence Examples

  • The Vatican replied that she had entered a nunnery, and subsequently, on the threat of intervention by Prussia, induced the Mortara family to withdraw their plaint.

  • And from ping golf club set rescue of Science, family plaint gray.

  • I haven't heard the plaint of the apparatchiks that the BBC is acting like the unofficial opposition for a while.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLA

Words Ending With

TNTINT

Unscrambles

plaint

Words Starting With P and Ending With T

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Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With T