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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