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Definition of "plaint" [plaint]

  • A complaint. (noun)
  • An utterance of grief or sorrow; a lamentation. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "plaint" in a sentence
  • "The usual plaint is the health care American style is very expensive, which is a simple fact."
  • "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."
  • "As the Bowery fete ably proves, Superdrag's back catalog is loaded with power-pop bullets-such as the cheerfully bitter post-major-label plaint "Keep It Close to Me""