Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

come home by weeping cross

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: come home- by weep-ing cross
IPA

44

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

3

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.

Dated

Example Sentences

"Those that will try experiments, smart for it in the issue. Solomon came home by weeping-cross: Eccles. i. 14, 'I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'"
"1744, Spanish Rhodomontades, Pierre de Bourdeille, tr. John Ozell. This was a fine Rhodomontade, but it fail'd in the Execution: For, making an irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross."
"He came home by weeping cross, and I believe he would not for his kingdom have repeated the sin: after which he had scarce a good day."
"But the time will come when, coming home by weeping cross, thou shalt confess that it is better to be at home in the cave of an hermit than abroad in the court of an emperor, and that a crust with quietness shall be better than quails with unrest."

Etymology

From a common English placename indicating the former site of a stone cross.

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

comes home by weeping cross (present, singular) coming home by weeping cross (participle, present) came home by weeping cross (past)

Questions

What does come home by weeping cross mean?: To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.
Where does come home by weeping cross come from?: From a common English placename indicating the former site of a stone cross.

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