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WAYMENT
Etymology 1
Verb
wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)
(ambitransitive, obsolete) To lament.
Noun
wayment
(obsolete) Lamentation; grief.
Etymology 2
Contraction.
Interjection
wayment
(slang, nonstandard) Wait a minute.
Source: Wiktionary
Way"ment, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waymented; p. pr. & vb. n. Waymenting.] Etym: [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe) and L. lamentari to lament. See Lament.]
Definition: To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.
Way"ment, n.
Definition: Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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