Definition of Laments

1. Noun. (plural of lament) ¹

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Definition of Laments

1. lament [v] - See also: lament

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laments

lameness
lamenesses
lament
lamentable
lamentableness
lamentably
lamentation
lamented
lamentedly
lamenter
lamenters
lamentful
lamenting
lamentingly
lamentoso
laments (current term)
lameo
lameos
lamer
lamers
lames
lamest
lamestream
lameter
lameters
lametta
lamia
lamiaceae
lamiae
lamias

Literary usage of Laments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present : Savage and Civilized by Arthur Saunders Thomson (1859)
"laments. — Love songs. — Time chants. — War and Jeering songs.—Stories.—Fables. ... As many of the laments, songs, and stories referred to love, war, ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and laments, with singular propriety, the misfortune of a monarch, from whom a venal tribe of courtiers perpetually labour to conceal the truth. ..."

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