Lament
To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
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Lament Quotations
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
Sean O'Casey
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
John Strachan
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
Poppy Z. Brite
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
David Ogden Stiers
Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.
Julius Wellhausen
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Lament Translations
lament in Dutch is weeklagen, steen en been klagen
lament in Finnish is valitella
lament in French is lamentez, lamentent, lamentation, lamenter
lament in German is beklagen, beklage, Klage
lament in Latin is questus, queror
lament in Norwegian is klagesang, klage, beklage, jamre
lament in Spanish is lamentarse
lament in Swedish is klaga, klagan
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