lamentern.
/ləˈmɛntə/, U.S. /ləˈmɛn(t)ər/ One who laments or mourns.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > lamenter(s)
sorrowfuleOE
mournera1425
lamenter1589
sorrower1613
deplorer1687
Jeremiah1781
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 828 A Lamentour, lamentator.
1607 S. Hieron Spirituall Sonne-ship in Wks. (1620) I. 362 The renued spirit..for sinnes past and committed is an vnfained lamenter.
c1610–15 tr. St. Gregory of Nyssa Life St. Macrina in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 206 This spake I with as highe a voice as I coulde, to the end that I might drowne the sounde of the lamenters.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lx. 405 I might have continu'd on in the Words of the Royal Lamenter.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxxiii. 343 ‘What a cruelty in her fate!’ said the sweet lamenter.
1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism iii. 366 He was a great lamenter of the extremities of the times.
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