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

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