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lamentation|læmənˈteɪʃən|
[a. F. lamentation or ad. L. lāmentātiōn-em, n. of action f. lāmentārī to lament.]
The action of lamenting; the passionate or demonstrative expression of grief; mourning; in weakened sense, regret.
1375Barbour Bruce xx. 282 The lamentacioune..That thai folk for thair lord maid. 1382Wyclif Luke vii. 32 We han maad lamentacioun, and ȝe han not wept. c1400Destr. Troy 7156 Myche weping & wo,..And lamentacioun full long for loue of hym one. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxxv. 110 They all made gret lamentasyon for his departyng. 1535Coverdale Ps. lxxvii. 64 Their prestes were slayne..and there were no wyddowes to make lamentacion. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. i. 64 Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessiue greefe the enemie to the liuing. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 579 Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud Heard on the ruful stream. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. i. 185 There shall be lamentation heard in Heaven As o'er an angel fallen. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. iii. iii. (1874) 435 Another subject of general lamentation is the evil produced by party spirit.
attrib.1817Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXII. 122 The Morning Chronicle..treated the town with some neat lamentation puffs.
b. An instance of this; a lament. the Lamentations of Jeremiah, or, shortly, Lamentations [Vulg. Lamentationes, LXX. θρῆνοι]: the title of one of the poetical books of the Old Testament, traditionally ascribed to the prophet Jeremiah, and having for its subject the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans.
1382Wyclif 2 Chron. xxxv. 25 As lawe it is hadde in Irael, Loo! it is told writen in the Lamentaciouns. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lv. 189 He caused his Nephew to be buryed with sore wepynges and lamentacyons. 1535Coverdale Jer. xlviii. 5 At the goinge vp vnto Luhith there shall arise a lamentacion. 1611Bible Ezek. xix. 1 Take thou vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 87 A sad lamentation and howling. 1836W. Irving Astoria II. 45 The lamentations of women who had lost some relative in the foray. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 110, I will call it the House of Lamentations. 1855Kingsley Heroes, Theseus ii. 237 A great lamentation arose throughout the city.
c. Eccl. One of the lessons (taken from Lamentations) in the office of Tenebræ.
1853Dale tr. Baldeschi's Ceremonial 185 The latter having made a genuflection to the Altar, and a reverence to the choir, sings the Lamentation, without asking the Benediction.
Hence lamenˈtational a.
1827Bentham Wks. (1838–43) X. 61 Half lamentational, half congratulational, rhythmical commonplaces. |