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lamented, ppl. a. (and n.)|ləˈmɛntɪd|
[f. lament v. + -ed1.]
Mourned for; bewailed; regretted. Also absol. or as n., esp. in phr. the late lamented, someone recently dead.
1611Cotgr., Regretté,..bewayled, lamented. 1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 73 Involuntary and lamented distractions. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 733 This humble praise, lamented shade! receive. 1784Cowper Task iv. 576 Lamented change! 1859M. Thomson Cawnpore 83 We thought it a more savoury meal than any of the recherché culinary curiosities of the lamented Soyer. 1864Le Fanu Uncle Silas I. xxiv. 297 Your late lamented father. 1864C. M. Yonge Trial I. ix. 172 Depend upon it, the late lamented will remain in the ascendant till there are no breakers ahead. 1908Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/7 An alternative in the Greek language was ‘the blessed’, but English can get no farther in the way of euphemism than ‘the late lamented’. 1952D. Ames Murder, Maestro, Please xvi. 111 You're the one whose husband identified the late lamented, aren't you? 1972A. Hunter Vivienne ix. 113 He wouldn't happen to be the late lamented's husband?
Hence † laˈmentedly adv.
1645Milton Colast. 24 Somtimes they are not both actors, but the one of them most lamentedly passive. |