LAMENT

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryden.

3.
n.

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

4.
n.

An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.


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