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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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]: 
 
  Lamenting  \La*ment"ing\,  n. 
  Lamentation. 
 
  Lamentings  heard  i'  the  air.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lamenting 
  adj  :  vocally  expressing  grief  or  sorrow  or  resembling  such 
  expression;  "lamenting  sinners";  "wailing  mourners"; 
  "the  wailing  wind";  "wailful  bagpipes";  "tangle  her 
  desires  with  wailful  sonnets"-  Shakespeare  [syn:  {wailing}, 
  {wailful}] 




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