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n. A complaint.

n. An utterance of grief or sorrow; a lamentation.

n. A lament or woeful cry.

n. A complaint.

n. An accusation.

n. Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.

n. An accusation or protest on account of an injury.

n. A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing.

n. Lamentation; complaint; audible expression of sorrow; a sad or serious song.

n. Representation made of injury or wrong done; complaint.

n. In law: A statement of grievance made to a court for the purpose of asking redress.

n. The first process in an inferior court, in the nature of original process.

n. (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed

n. a cry of sorrow and grief

"About me is murmur and hum, and I know it for the gnat - swarm of the living, piping for a little space its thin plaint of troubled air."

allegation    complaint   

plaintiff    complaint   

lamentation    complaint    lament   

lamentation    wail    entreaty    lament    dirge    cadence    refrain    chirp    remonstrance    droop