Definition of Weeping

Weeping

of Weep

The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.

Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.

Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.

Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.

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Weeping Quotations

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
Anne McCaffrey

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
Lara St. John

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
Marie Osmond

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.
Lawrence Halprin

The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing.
Thomas Hearne

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.
Du Fu

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Anne Bronte

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

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Weeping Translations

weeping in French is pleurant
weeping in German is weinend, weinende, weinend
weeping in Latin is ploratio, lamentatio, ploratus

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