One who weeps or mourns; someone who cries over something.
From 'beweep' plus the agent suffix '-er,' which creates a noun for someone who performs an action.
Archaic agent nouns like 'beweeper' reveal how fully people could nominalize 'be-' verbs—turning 'he bewept' into 'he was a beweeper,' creating new social roles through grammar.
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