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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.
