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Lament
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryden.
Synonyms: deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore.