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plaintive
plaintive:
see
plague
plaintive (adj.)
late 14c., "lamenting," from Old French
plaintif
"complaining; wretched, miserable," from
plainte
(see
plaint
). Sense of "mournful, sad" first recorded 1570s. Related:
Plaintively
;
plaintiveness
.