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English Dictionary: lamenting by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lamenting
adj
  1. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare
    Synonym(s): lamenting, wailing, wailful
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lamenting \La*ment"ing\, n.
      Lamentation.
  
               Lamentings heard i' the air.                  --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lament \La*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lamented}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Lamenting}.]
      To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
  
               One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. --Dryden.
  
      Syn: To deplore; mourn; bewail. See {Deplore}.
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