"begrieve" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1930, William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust",
          "text": "[…] and the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the second who do begrieve Lucas's shameful condition and would improve it […]",
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          "ref": "1989, Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe, Economy and Culture in the Baltic, 1650-1700",
          "text": "He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers. Near Namur on the Meuse he describes a hermits' lodge carved in stone with the internal movable contrivance representing the Passion.",
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          "ref": "1989, Cedric Gael Bryant, Race, Gender, and Metaphor in Five Major Novels by William Faulkner",
          "text": "The logical inconsistency of \"begrieving\" a shameful condition, while postponing its abolition is the fundamental fault Baldwin finds with Faulkner's racial politics and white southern liberalism generally.",
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          "ref": "2000, Lewis Burke Frumkes, Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough, page 128",
          "text": "There lies Jack Spratt; alas, he could eat no more fat. And beside him his fat wife who used to lick the platter clean. Ah, it begrieves me to see them here.",
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          "ref": "2009, Kathryn L. Pringle, Right New Biology, page 61",
          "text": "[…] a whisper is the spectacle of ache\nis apparatus in this all worn libido\nstricken fixer : obligate bleeder\nbegrieving that regal population before nothing CONSTRUCT\ninhales reservations we has PLACE […]",
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        "To grieve over or about."
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        "(transitive, archaic, rare) To grieve over or about."
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          "sense": "to grieve over",
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          "ref": "1996, Cameron Judd, Passage to Natchez, page 229",
          "text": "It was begrieving to see how the intrusion of even a smattering of pride and moral standards could impede on what had always been a carefree, shiftless life.",
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        "(transitive, archaic, rare) To cause grief or grieving."
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      "form": "begrieves",
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        "singular",
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      ],
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