Definition of lamentation

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Lamentation (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents..

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Weeping :: Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep..
Wailment :: Wailment (n.) Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.
Condolement :: Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; lamentation.
Coranach :: Coranach (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.
Weepful :: Weepful (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.
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..
Threnody :: Threnody (n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.
Elegy :: Elegy (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Weeping :: Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Threne :: Threne (n.) Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
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.
Monody :: Monody (n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice..
Complaint :: Complaint (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding..
Wayment :: Wayment (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.
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..
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation..
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..
Lamentation :: Lamentation (n.) The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
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