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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
plaint/pleɪnt/

▶noun

1 Law, Brit. an accusation; a charge.

2 chiefly literary a complaint or lamentation.

– origin ME: from OFr. plainte, fem. past part. of plaindre ‘complain’.

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