Definition of "weepings" [weepings]

• Plural form of weeping. (noun)

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• "In seconds, quiet weepings lurched into audible sobs, dampened eyes blinked fast and then spilled messy tears."
• "One atop the other they sat, her trapped weepings, encased in perfect crystal."
• "I recalled reading Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild's anthology Global Woman, a sociologically important book, and thinking helplessly at one point, But what can I do if a young Filipina fell in love and moved in with an abusive unemployed alcoholic — and yet somehow managed, between the weepings and beatings, to create four children?"