LAMENT', v.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', v.t. To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.LAMENT', n. [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.]
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