What does "lament" mean?
Lament: Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi.
Additional senses
- 2.To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryden. See Deplore.
- 3.Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.
- 4.An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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