LAMENTA'TION, noun [Latin lamentatio.] 1. Expression of sorrow; cries of grief; the act of bewailing. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. Matthew 2:18. 2. In the plural, a book of Scripture, containing the lamentations of Jeremiah.
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