Lamentation

Definitions

1. The act of lamenting.
   countable, uncountable
2. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
   countable, uncountable
3. Specifically, mourning.
   countable, uncountable
4. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
   countable, uncountable
5. A group of swans.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“About John Marin, there move⟳ sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk⟳ and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain⟳ unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?”

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