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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Lamentation.

Lamentings

heard i’ the air.

Shakespeare

ppr.

Bewailing; mourning; weeping.

Noun.

A mourning; lamentation.

lamenting

lamenting ‎(plural lamentings)

lamentation
- Shakespeare
  The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death […]