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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" [syn: lament, lamentation, plaint, wail]
2: the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief [syn: lamentation, mourning]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century an act or instance of lamenting

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of lamenting. 2 a lament. Phrases and idioms: Lamentations of Jeremiah an Old Testament book concerning the destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th c. BC. Etymology: ME f. OF lamentation or L lamentatio (as LAMENT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lamentation Lam`en*ta"tion, n. [F. lamentation, L. lamentatio.] 1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. --Matt. ii. 18. 2. pl. (Script.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lamentations) A lamentation is an expression of great sorrow. (FORMAL) It was a time for mourning and lamentation. ...special prayers and lamentations. N-VAR

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. qinah), an elegy or dirge. The first example of this form of poetry is the lament of David over Saul and Jonathan (2 Sam. 1:17-27). It was a frequent accompaniment of mourning (Amos 8:10). In 2 Sam. 3:33, 34 is recorded David's lament over Abner. Prophecy sometimes took the form of a lament when it predicted calamity (Ezek. 27:2, 32; 28:12; 32:2, 16).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

lam-en-ta'-shun.

See BURIAL, III, 2; IV, 4, 5, 6.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Wailing, moaning, moan, plaint, complaint, lament, ululation, hubbubboo.

Moby Thesaurus

agony, anguish, bitterness, bleakness, care, carking care, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, crying, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, grief, grieving, grievousness, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, joylessness, lamentability, lamenting, languishment, misery, moaning, mournfulness, mourning, pain, painfulness, pathos, pining, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, prostration, regrettableness, sadness, sharpness, sobbing, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness