lamenting

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of lament

noun

  1. Lamentation.
    I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes, 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd, If gronyngs greate, get grace at God, and loude lamentyngs, loue
    One Project foil’d, another should be try’d, 1774, Thomas Hull, 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

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