Definition of lamentation

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

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Deploration :: Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
Elegy :: Elegy (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation..
Wailment :: Wailment (n.) Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.
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..
Weepful :: Weepful (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.
Condolement :: Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; 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..
Lamentation :: Lamentation (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents..
Mourning :: Mourning (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
Threne :: Threne (n.) Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Tammuz :: Tammuz (n.) A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis..
Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains..
Plaint :: Plaint (n.) Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament..
Weeping :: Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep..
Coranach :: Coranach (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.
Weeping :: Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Threnody :: Threnody (n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.
Ejulation :: Ejulation (n.) A wailing; lamentation.
Monody :: Monody (n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice..
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