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Webster 1913 Edition


Lament

La-ment′

,
Verb.
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.

La-ment′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lamented
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Lamenting
.]
To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
Syn. – To deplore; mourn; bewail. See
Deplore
.

La-ment′

,
Noun.
[L.
lamentum
. Cf.
Lament
,
Verb.
]
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 1828 Edition


Lament

LAMENT'

,
Verb.
I.
[L. lamentor.]
1.
To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2Chron. 35.
2.
To regret deeply; to feel sorrow.

LAMENT'

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

LAMENT'

,
Noun.
[L. lamentum.] Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
[This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.]

Definition 2024


lament

lament

See also: Lament.

English

Noun

lament (plural laments)

  1. An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
  2. A song expressing grief.

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Verb

lament (third-person singular simple present laments, present participle lamenting, simple past and past participle lamented)

  1. (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
    • Bible, John xvi. 20
      Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
  2. (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
    • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
      By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
    • Dryden
      One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.

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French

Verb

lament

  1. third-person plural present indicative of lamer
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of lamer

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