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n. The act of lamenting.

n. A lament.

n. See Table at Bible.

n. The act of lamenting.

n. A sorrowful cry; a lament.

n. Specifically, mourning.

n. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge

n. A group of swans.

n. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

n. A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.

n. The act of bewailing; expression of sorrow; a mournful outcry.

n. plural The shorter title of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, one of the poetical books of the Old Testament.

n. plural The music to which the first three lessons, taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, are sung in the Roman Catholic Church, in the office called Tenebræ, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week.

n. the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief

n. a cry of sorrow and grief

"So, too, the poetry of grief and lamentation is one of the deepest and most long-standing elements in poetry."

expression    reflection    reflexion    activity    manifestation    complaint   

sorrow   

lamented    lamentable    lament   

wailing    moaning   

sob    wail    lament    regret    anguish    exclamation    affliction    weep    entreaty    protestation