lamentation
pronunciation
How to pronounce lamentation in British English:
UK [ˌlæmənˈteɪʃn]
How to pronounce lamentation in American English:
US [ˌlæmənˈteʃən]
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- Noun:
- a cry of sorrow and grief
- the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
Word Origin
- lamentation (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French lamentacion and directly from Latin lamentationem (nominative lamentatio) "wailing, moaning, weeping," noun of action from past participle stem of lamentari "to wail, moan, weep, lament," from lamentum "a wailing," from PIE root *la- "to shout, cry," probably ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan.
Example
- 1. But the lamentation of vanity can be false modesty .
- 2. Lamentation is an activity we would prefer to avoid .
- 3. Hardly a day passes without public lamentation about the paucity of leadership in the western democracies .
- 4. " Alas , child , it is not only that I cannot see - I can see , nothing , nothing , " said the grandmother in a voice of lamentation .
- 5. The young man had often heard him sing the poem of lamentation that he made , but could only remember that it was " very mournful , " and that he called her " beauty of all beauties . "