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.
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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.
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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.
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