Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lament"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lament \La*ment"\, v. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lament \La*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lamented}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Lamenting}.]
To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. --Dryden.
Syn: To deplore; mourn; bewail. See {Deplore}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lament \La*ment"\, n. [L. lamentum. Cf. {Lament}, v.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lament
n 1: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be
heard throughout the ward" [syn: {lamentation}, {plaint},
{wail}]
2: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a
memorial to a dead person [syn: {dirge}, {coronach}, {requiem},
{threnody}]
3: a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: {elegy}]
v 1: express grief verbally [syn: {keen}]
2: regret strongly [syn: {deplore}, {bewail}, {bemoan}, {regret}]
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