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/lɐmɪntˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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a cry of sorrow and grief
their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward - the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
How To Use lamentation In A Sentence
- Lamentations" (2007) is estimated at £6,000-£8,000. An Emerging Art Market: Turkish Contemporary
- He was afire with every kind of sorrow, lamentation and despair. THE BROKEN GOD
- There was lamentation throughout the land at news of the defeat.
- In the first nocturn, the Church sings lessons from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, with a special melody famous for its solemnity and beauty, and entirely appropriate to the text. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
- Talk to them of education; they will readily acknowledge that it's "a braw thing to be weel learned," and begin a lamentation, which is only shorter than the lamentations of Literary and General Lectures and Essays
- American novelists have done their bit to swell the chorus of lamentation.
- Estrin's novel, titled The Lamentations of Julius Marantz (Unbridled Books, 2007), twists the rapture into a comic conspiracy of the right wing US government and the Sierra Club (among others) designed to rid the government of its leftist and Islamic enemies, end the leak in the ozone, and consolidate the government's right wing political base. Marc Estrin Takes on the Rapture in The Lamentations of Julius Marantz
- Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
- And in this time of Pasque our mother holy church ne doth but joy and maketh solation for the resurrection of Jesu Christ, and therefore is then said: Alleluia, which signifieth joy and consolation, for after that creature hath done penance by virtue of humility in weepings and lamentations he must lead after, joy and very consolation. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
- Following that exchange, his dolor and lamentations were both replaced with one sensation: rage.