begrieve

From be- (“around, about, over”) +‎ grieve.

begrieve (third-person singular simple present begrieves, present participle begrieving, simple past and past participle begrieved)

1. (transitive, archaic, rare) To grieve over or about.
   • 1930, William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust:

     […] and the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the second who do begrieve Lucas's shameful condition and would improve it […]

   • 1989, Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe, Economy and Culture in the Baltic, 1650-1700:

     He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers. Near Namur on the Meuse he describes a hermits' lodge carved in stone with the internal movable contrivance representing the Passion.

   • 1989, Cedric Gael Bryant, Race, Gender, and Metaphor in Five Major Novels by William Faulkner:

     The logical inconsistency of "begrieving" a shameful condition, while postponing its abolition is the fundamental fault Baldwin finds with Faulkner's racial politics and white southern liberalism generally.

   • 2000, Lewis Burke Frumkes, Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough, page 128:

     "There lies Jack Spratt; alas, he could eat no more fat. And beside him his fat wife who used to lick the platter clean. Ah, it begrieves me to see them here."

   • 2009, Kathryn L. Pringle, Right New Biology, page 61:

     […] a whisper is the spectacle of ache
     is apparatus in this all worn libido
     stricken fixer : obligate bleeder
     begrieving that regal population before nothing CONSTRUCT
     inhales reservations we has PLACE […]

2. (transitive, archaic, rare) To cause grief or grieving.
   • 1996, Cameron Judd, Passage to Natchez, page 229:

     It was begrieving to see how the intrusion of even a smattering of pride and moral standards could impede on what had always been a carefree, shiftless life.

• (to grieve over): lament