lamenting

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Verb

1. present participle of lament#English|lament

Noun

lamenting (plural lamentings)

1. Lamentation.
   • 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of Jerome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd,

     If gronyngs greate, get grace at God,

     and loude lamentyngs, loue:

     I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,

     shall God to mercie moue.

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3,

     The night has been unruly: where we lay,

     Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,

     Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death […]

   • 1774, Thomas Hull (actor), Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48,

     Lose not the Moments

     In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past:

     One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,

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