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.
To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryden.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
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