verb To feel sad about something, or mourn over it.
- 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.
— Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe (1989)
verb To make someone feel sad or sorrowful.
- 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.
— Lewis Burke Frumkes, Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough (2000)
- 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.
— Cameron Judd, Passage to Natchez (1996)
