la|ment´ing|ly

la|ment´ing|ly
la|ment «luh MEHNT», verb, noun.
–v.t.
1. to sorrow for; mourn aloud for: »

We lament the dead.

SYNONYM(S): bewail, deplore.
2. to feel sorrow about; regret: »

We lamented his absence. I lamented my own folly…in attempting a second voyage (Daniel Defoe).

–v.i.
to feel or show grief; mourn aloud; weep: »

Why does she lament so? The ghost of Freud laments wanly of yet another disservice perpetrated in his name (Mary O'Reilly).

 SYNONYM(S): grieve, wail.
–n.
1. an expression of grief or sorrow; wail: »

The Russian scholars raised a lament against, of all things, the slighting of Latin and Greek in Soviet curriculums (Newsweek). Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments (Shakespeare).

2. a poem, song, or tune that expresses grief: »

Soon as the dire lament was play'd, It waked the lurking ambuscade (Scott).

 SYNONYM(S): elegy, dirge.
3. Poetic. the act of lamenting; lamentation.
╂[< Latin lāmentārī < lāmentum a wailing, related to lātrāre to bark, cry]
–la|ment´er, noun.
–la|ment´ing|ly, adverb.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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