LAMENTING Definition & Meaning

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lamenting

[ luh-men-ting ]

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adjective

speaking of something with sorrow, regret, or disappointment; evoking feelings of this kind:
After the controlled mayhem of their first number, the band went into a laid-back groove with a lamenting melody on the sax.
As sure as the season changes, we are once again hearing the lamenting call of British Columbia's most vocal crusader against salmon farming.
mourning or grieving over something, especially death or profound loss or suffering:
In some countries, people follow the custom of leading a procession with the decorated body of the dead, for the benefit of the lamenting relatives.

noun

the act of grieving or of expressing regret or disappointment:
Complain and point the finger all you want, but this is not a problem that lamenting will solve.

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Other �y��vlog Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of lamenting¹

First recorded in 1510–20; lament ( def ) + -ing ²( def ) for the adjective senses; lament ( def ) + -ing ¹( def ) for the noun sense

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That clears Saxon to make a few racist jokes, like lamenting that his massage didn’t have a happy ending.

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Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.”

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Just two years ago, Draper was lamenting being known as "the guy who got injured all the time".

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Ireland interim boss Simon Easterby questioned the awarding of France's second try while lamenting his side's wasteful display in Saturday's Six Nations defeat in Dublin.

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“I don't think we can come back from this full-on assault on the environment. When ExxonMobil is lamenting leaving the Paris Agreement, you know it's bad.”

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