Lamentations

[ UK /lɐmɪntˈe‍ɪʃənz/ ]
NOUN
  1. an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah
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  • The fear, the sorrow, the cries and lamentations of the poor inhabitants are unexpressible; every one begging pardon, and embracing each other, crying, Forgive me, friend, brother, sister! Our Day In the Light of Prophecy
  • For all the lamentations that schools do not teach the game, it is still played in some areas.
  • An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
  • IV. vi.124 (414,8) They'll roar him in again] As they _hooted_ at his departure, they will _roar_ at his return; as he went out with scoffs, he will come back with lamentations. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • The voice of these Lamentations is a sixty-something, club-footed scientist named Julius Marantz, an obsessive researcher who suffers from both forbidden knowledge and and insistent conscience. The Lamentations of Julius Marantz by Marc Estrin: Book summary
  • The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy.
  • He would have gone moping about for years in disconsolate solitude, silent and sullen as a ghost, or would have rent the air with unavailing shrieks and lamentations. Review
  • The response to the latter was lamentations that standards would inevitably dro (o) p and threats to withhold alumnus donations. TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
  • An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
  • Lamentations", settings of the liturgical hymns, a collection of motets, the well-know "Stabat Mater" for double chorus, litanies in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the offertories for the ecclesiastical year. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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