different between bewailing vs lamenting

English

Verb

bewailing

1. present participle of bewail

Noun

bewailing (plural bewailings)

1. The act of one who bewails something.
   • 1867, Annie Thomas, Called to Account

     No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again.

English

Verb

lamenting

1. present participle of lament

Noun

lamenting (plural lamentings)

1. Lamentation.
   • 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd,^[1]

     If gronyngs greate, get grace at God,

     and loude lamentyngs, loue:

     I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,

     shall God to mercie moue.

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3,^[2]

     The night has been unruly: where we lay,

     Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,

     Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death […]

   • 1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48,^[3]

     Lose not the Moments

     In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past:

     One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,

Anagrams

• alignment, gintleman, manteling