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.
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