LAMENTING

lamenting, wailing, wailful

(adjective) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

lamenting

present participle of lament

Noun

lamenting (plural lamentings)

Lamentation.

Anagrams

• alignment, gintleman, manteling

Source: Wiktionary


La*ment"ing, n.

Definition: Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.

LAMENT

La*ment", v. i. Etym: [F. lamenter, L. lamentari, fr. lamentum a lament.]

Definition: 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.

La*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lamented; p. pr. & vb. n. Lamenting.]

Definition: To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryden.

Syn.

– To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore.

La*ment", n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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