Definition of plaint noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

plaint

noun

/pleɪnt/

(British English, law) a complaint made against somebody in court

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(literary) a sad call or sound

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French plainte, feminine past participle of plaindre ‘complain’, or from Old French plaint, from Latin planctus ‘beating of the breast’.

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