Hypertext Webster Gateway: "complaint"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Complaint \Com*plaint"\, n. [F. complainte. See {Complain}.]
1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment;
lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.

I poured out my complaint before him. --Ps. cxlii.
2.

Grievous complaints of you. --Shak.

2. Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.

The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the
complaint of all who wish well to the church.
--Swift.

3. An ailment or disease of the body.

One in a complaint of his bowels. --Arbuthnot.

4. (Law) A formal allegation or charge against a party made
or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a
wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case,
generally under oath); an information; accusation; the
initial bill in proceedings in equity.

Syn: Lamentation; murmuring; sorrow; grief; disease; illness;
disorder; malady; ailment.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

complaint
n 1: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for
complaining [syn: {ailment}, {ill}]
2: (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or
sorrow
3: an expression of grievance or resentment
4: (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out
the facts on which the claim for relief is based
5: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense;
"he was arrested on a charge of larceny" [syn: {charge}]


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