Definition of Plainteve

Plain"tive (?), a. [F. plaintif. See Plaintiff, n.] 1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden.

2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor.

-- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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