What's the difference between bewail and bewailment?
Bewail
Definition:
(v. t.) To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.
(v. i.) To express grief; to lament.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comments sent to a blog I came across bewail the tendency of female comics to work around the themes of "bras, periods, chocolate, WeightWatchers".
(2) Way back in 1693 John Locke was bewailing the fact that boys had such trouble learning Latin while girls took so easily to French (he saw it as a failure of method, not a failure of intellect).
(3) Sex workers are a notoriously difficult group to contact, and the government has repeatedly bewailed our social exclusion – more notice, more funding and more accountability would all have made this effort to connect with us less of a figleaf and more of a commitment to change.
(4) It is not enough to bewail this dreadful situation, point the finger of blame at others, condemn the latest outrage, circle the western wagons against Isis and hunker down in the hope that, somehow, the war will burn itself out.
(5) It is run by a self-serving, bureaucratic and political elite, is notoriously corrupt, and is admired only by politicians from the Middle East or Africa who bewail their own lack of unity, or by Americans who see its member nations as the colonies of 1776.
(6) The Conservative Euro-enthusiasts are a furtive and dwindling band, whose failure to push the case for their views is a cause of the situation they bewail.
(7) The last time the west laughed so uproariously at a Korean singer was when an animated Kim Jong-il bewailed how "ronery" he was in the film Team America, and how nobody took him "serirousry".
(8) He also bewailed the Met's confiscation of glass jars containing Hussain's prized collection of coins.
(9) and Aladdin, an Arabian fantasia that Edward Said might return from the grave just to bewail.
(10) Yes, some fashion is very expensive – so, incidentally, is football but I have yet to see a single comment beneath a football column bewailing how much Manchester United pays its players every week, or even how much a Chelsea season ticket costs, but that, apparently, is by the bye.
Bewailment
Definition:
(n.) The act of bewailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comments sent to a blog I came across bewail the tendency of female comics to work around the themes of "bras, periods, chocolate, WeightWatchers".
(2) Way back in 1693 John Locke was bewailing the fact that boys had such trouble learning Latin while girls took so easily to French (he saw it as a failure of method, not a failure of intellect).
(3) Sex workers are a notoriously difficult group to contact, and the government has repeatedly bewailed our social exclusion – more notice, more funding and more accountability would all have made this effort to connect with us less of a figleaf and more of a commitment to change.
(4) It is not enough to bewail this dreadful situation, point the finger of blame at others, condemn the latest outrage, circle the western wagons against Isis and hunker down in the hope that, somehow, the war will burn itself out.
(5) It is run by a self-serving, bureaucratic and political elite, is notoriously corrupt, and is admired only by politicians from the Middle East or Africa who bewail their own lack of unity, or by Americans who see its member nations as the colonies of 1776.
(6) The Conservative Euro-enthusiasts are a furtive and dwindling band, whose failure to push the case for their views is a cause of the situation they bewail.
(7) The last time the west laughed so uproariously at a Korean singer was when an animated Kim Jong-il bewailed how "ronery" he was in the film Team America, and how nobody took him "serirousry".
(8) He also bewailed the Met's confiscation of glass jars containing Hussain's prized collection of coins.
(9) and Aladdin, an Arabian fantasia that Edward Said might return from the grave just to bewail.
(10) Yes, some fashion is very expensive – so, incidentally, is football but I have yet to see a single comment beneath a football column bewailing how much Manchester United pays its players every week, or even how much a Chelsea season ticket costs, but that, apparently, is by the bye.