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Lament   /ləmˈɛnt/   Listen
noun
Lament  n.  
1.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. "Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage."
2.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.


verb
Lament  v. t.  (past & past part. lamented; pres. part. lamenting)  To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. "One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes."
Synonyms: To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore.


Lament  v. i.  To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. "Jeremiah lamented for Josiah." "Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice."





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"Lament" Quotes from Famous Books



... king's death, the funeral-baked meats, as Hamlet cursorily remarked, furnishing forth the marriage-tables—struck the young prince aghast. He had loved the queen his mother, and had nearly idolized the late king; but now he forgot to lament the death of the one in contemplating the life of the other. The billing and cooing of the newly-married couple filled him with horror. Anger, shame, pity, and despair seized upon him by turns. He fell into a forlorn condition, forsaking his books, ...
— A Midnight Fantasy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... world; the eye of light and the heart of fire; "the angel nature in the angel name." And yet amid his fadeless art he faded away; and at the deathless shrines which he left behind the admirer of his genius is left to lament ...
— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan
... seated the hermit thus addressed him: "My son, on the top of this mountain is an enchanted castle, kept by the giant Galligantus and a vile magician. I lament the fate of a duke's daughter, whom they seized as she was walking in her father's garden, and brought hither transformed ...
— The Blue Fairy Book • Various
... married couple stayed but two days longer at Sir Charles's. Fortunately Mr Morgan spent the last day abroad in paying visits in the neighbourhood, which gave the two unhappy friends leisure to lament their ill fortune in this cruel separation, without giving the cause of it any new offence. They took a melancholy leave that night, fearing that even a correspondence between them might be considerably restrained by this arbitrary husband who seemed to think his wife's affections were ...
— A Description of Millenium Hall • Sarah Scott
... China by the troops of General Ma Yuan during the Han dynasty, and it reached Japan almost simultaneously with the importation of Buddhism. The physicians of the East had no skill in treating it, and its ravages were terrible, those that escaped with their lives having generally to lament the loss of their eyes. So soon as the malady made its second appearance in the immediate sequel of the new honours paid to Buddhism, men began to cry out that the Kami were punishing the nation's ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi


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