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Definition of Laments

Lament
Lament La*ment", v. i. [F. lamenter, L. lamentari, fr. lamentum a lament.] To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. --2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. --John xvi. 20.
Lament
Lament La*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lamented; p. pr. & vb. n. Lamenting.] To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. --Dryden. Syn: To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore.
Lament
Lament La*ment", n. [L. lamentum. Cf. Lament, v.] 1. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. --Milton. 2. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

Meaning of Laments from wikipedia

- Odyssey, and laments continued to be sung in elegiacs accompanied by the aulos in classical and ****enistic Greece. Elements of laments appear in Beowulf...
- refer to: Laments (Kochanowski), a 16th-century series of threnodies "The Lament", or Li Sao, a Chinese poem Lament b****, a free musical form Lament (band)...
- "Nine Laments" (traditional Chinese: 九歎; simplified Chinese: 九叹; pinyin: Jiǔ tàn; lit. 'Nine Laments') is one of the 17 major sections of the ancient Chinese...
- Lithuanian laments is an archaic genre of Lithuanian folk songs. There are two major categories of Lithuanian laments: funeral lament (laidotuvių rauda)...
- Laments for Josiah is the term used in reference to 2 Chronicles 35:25. The p****age reads: "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men...
- Adam's Lament is an old Russian Orthodox lament, originally sung during Lent. M****cripts of the lament date from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries...
- James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of...
- Lamentations shares some motifs with earlier Mesopotamian laments. Whereas the Mesopotamian laments are in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess, Lamentations...
- Dido's Lament ("When I am laid in earth") is the closing aria from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate. It is included...
- "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess. The other city laments are: The Lament for Sumer and Ur The Lament for...