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What is a plaint?

What is a plaint? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
  2. A complaint.
  3. (archaic) A sad song.
  4. (archaic or Britain law) An accusation.
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The intonation of the Ungava Eskimos, particularly the women, is like a plaint.
When she awoke next morning raindrops were beating a reiterative plaint against the window, and the sound seemed very beautiful.
The plaint of the wood pewee, pensive and like a human sigh, is far from pessimistic, although in a minor key.
What they did not tell the court is that at the time they lodged their plaint, KCA had no officials, and a Normalisation Committee had been registered.
It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred.
Ne on her teares or plaint, at all to have remorse, but to bring the mayde perforce.

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