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deploration Now rare.|diːplɔəˈreɪʃən|
In 5 -acyon, 6 -atioun.
[Ultimately ad. L. dēplōrātiōn-em, n. of action f. dēplōrāre to deplore; but in Caxton and early Sc. perh. from French.]
1. The action of deploring; lamentation.
1533Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 3 The deploratioun of sic miseryis. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones ii. 151 The bitter deploration of mine offences. 1627Bp. Hall Gt. Impostor 507 The meditation and deploration of our owne danger and misery. 1831Examiner 482/2 We cannot run over a tenth part of the deplorations that occur.
†b. Formerly, a title for elegiac poems or other compositions; a lament. [So in French.]
1537Lindesay (title), The Deploratioun of the Deith of Quene Magdalene.
†2. Deplorable condition, misery. Obs. rare.
1490Caxton Eneydos ii. 16 It sholde be an harde thynge..to putte in forgetynge her swete firste lyf and now her deploracyon. |