Definition of lamentation

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Lamentation (n.) The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

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Wail :: Wail (n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.
Lamenting :: Lamenting (n.) Lamentation.
Plaint :: Plaint (n.) Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament..
Dole :: Dole (n.) grief; sorrow; lamentation.
Elegy :: Elegy (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Lament :: Lament (v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child..
Ejulation :: Ejulation (n.) A wailing; lamentation.
Hagiographa :: Hagiographa (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles..
Deploration :: Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
Weeping :: Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep..
Mourning :: Mourning (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
Weeping :: Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Lamentation :: Lamentation (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents..
Threne :: Threne (n.) Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Condolement :: Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; lamentation.
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation..
Monody :: Monody (n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice..
Threnody :: Threnody (n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.
Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains..
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