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[n] (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
[n] (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
[n] an expression of grievance or resentment
[n] (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow
[n] an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Poetic form derived from the Latin in which poets bewail social evils or the vicissitudes of life e.g. Complaint to his Purse by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Synonyms
ailment, charge, ill
See Also...
accusal, accusation, bill of indictment, cry, disorder, exclamation, grievance, grumble, grumbling, indictment, jeremiad, kinetosis, lament, lamentation, motion sickness, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering, objection, pet peeve, pip, plaint, pleading, upset, wail, whimper, whine, yell
Related Terms
abnormality, accusal, accusation, accusing, acute disease, affection, affidavit, affliction, ailment, allegation, allegement, allergic disease, allergy, arraignment, atrophy, bacterial disease, ban, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bill, bill of com
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Complex 14th Century French form composed of long and short lines. The long lines of the second stanza take their rhyme from the short lines of the first stanza. This pattern continues through out the poem until the final stanza - where the short lines take their rhyme from the long lines of the first stanza.
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Variation on the virelai featuring a double refrain at the start of the poem. These refrain lines are then used alternately at the end of successive stanzas and then appear together again at the end of the final stanza but in reverse order. An example of a virelai nouveau is July by Dobson.
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