LAMENT', verb intransitive [Latin lamentor.] 1. To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chronicles 35:25. 2. To regret deeply; to feel sorrow. LAMENT', verb transitive To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. LAMENT', noun [Latin 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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