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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous;

as, a

crying

evil

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the

crying

sin of our modern Christianity.

I. Taylor.

ppr.

Uttering a loud voice; proclaiming; &c.

Adj.

Notorious; common; great; as a crying sin or abuse.

Noun.

Importunate call; clamor; outcry.