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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



... appearance bringing gladness to the earth but sadness to Sancho Panza, for he found that his Dapple was missing, and seeing himself bereft of him he began the saddest and most doleful lament in the world, so loud that Don Quixote awoke at his exclamations and heard him saying, "O son of my bowels, born in my very house, my children's plaything, my wife's joy, the envy of my neighbours, relief of my burdens, and lastly, half supporter of myself, for ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... Fifth Street at the crowded hours it was unusual, to say the least. My companion was entering into the spirit of it in a most alarming way; he was half chanting, his voice rising, his face lighting up. "'Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon ...
— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair
... Greenlanders in the centuries before Columbus. If we distinguish justly between the Christian work and its unchristian and almost satanic admixtures, we can join without reserve both in the eulogy and in the lament with which the Catholic historian sums up his review: "It was a glorious work, and the recital of it impresses us by the vastness and success of the toil. Yet, as we look around to-day, we can find nothing of it that remains. Names ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
... and sound Government, in very difficult and lamentable circumstances; and under such rule the country had no occasion to lament the present or despair of the future. Nevertheless this Government gained no strength by permanence; its enemies felt no discouragement, while its friends perceived no addition to their power or ...
— Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time - Volume 1 • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... that met their eager gaze was an empty bag dangling in the breeze and visions of a trail of white sugar mingling with the dust miles behind. Many times afterward, in winter quarters or during apple-dumpling season, have I heard them lament ...
— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore


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