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Bewailment

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be·wail  (b-wl)
tr.v. be·wailed, be·wail·ing, be·wails
1. To cry over; lament: bewail the dead.
2. To express sorrow or unhappiness over: "bewailing the possible effects of double-digit unemployment" Washington Post.
[Middle English biwailen : bi-, be- + wailen; see wail.]
be·wailer n.
be·wailment n.
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The fact of Tackleton having walked out; and furthermore, of two or three people having been talking together at a distance, for two minutes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewailment of that mysterious convulsion in the Indigo trade, for four-and-twenty hours.
The Cricket on the Hearth by Dickens, Charles View in context
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