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

Monody :: Monody (n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice..

Wailment :: Wailment (n.) Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.

Ejulation :: Ejulation (n.) A wailing; lamentation.

Condolement :: Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; lamentation.

Deploration :: Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; 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..

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation..

Threnody :: Threnody (n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.

Mourning :: Mourning (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.

Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains..

Dole :: Dole (n.) grief; sorrow; lamentation.

Weeping :: Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep..

Elegy :: Elegy (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

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..

Plaint :: Plaint (n.) Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament..

Weepful :: Weepful (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.

Complaint :: Complaint (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding..

Wayment :: Wayment (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.

Wail :: Wail (n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

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