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Webster 1913 Edition

Lament

La-ment′

,
Verb.
I.
[F.
lamenter
, L.
lamentari
, fr.
lamentum
a lament.]
To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Jeremiah
lamented
for Josiah.
2 Chron. xxxv. 25.
Ye shall weep and
lament
, but the world shall rejoice.
John xvi. 20.

La-ment′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lamented
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Lamenting
.]
To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
Syn. – To deplore; mourn; bewail. See
Deplore
.

La-ment′

,
Noun.
[L.
lamentum
. Cf.
Lament
,
Verb.
]
1.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
Torment, and loud
lament
, and furious rage.
Milton.
2.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lament

LAMENT'

,
Verb.
I.
[L. lamentor.]
1.
To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2Chron. 35.
2.
To regret deeply; to feel sorrow.

LAMENT'

,
Verb.
T.
To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore.
One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.

LAMENT'

,
Noun.
[L. lamentum.] Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
[This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.]

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