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The act of lamenting.

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A sorrowful cry; a lament.

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Specifically, mourning.

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

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A group of swans.

Examples of lamentation in a Sentence

Amid great lamentation, the hero's body is laid on the funeral pile and consumed.

O children, I shall sing a lamentation of a winged swan which crossed the great waters.

The bandits of international capital, the Polish junkers and capitalists, are now raising a great lamentation that Poland is in great danger.

In that night a great lamentation was heard in the castle - its lord had died of the wound which Owain had given him.

Hence at the festival which commemorated the return of Theseus there was always weeping and lamentation.

It opened in 1927 and was built to bypass the terrible traffic congestion, and it was actually closed in 2003 amidst much lamentation.

There exist also fine drawings for a "Lamentation over the body of Christ," an "Adoration of the Kings," and a "March to Calvary"; of the last-named composition, besides the beautiful and elaborate pen-and-ink drawing at Florence, three still more highly-wrought versions in green monochrome exist; whether any of them are certainly by the artist's own hand is matter of debate.

The National Gallery, London, contains two remarkably fine specimens of Francia, once combined together as principal picture and lunette, - the "Virgin" and "Child and St Anna" enthroned, surrounded by saints, and (in the lunette) the "Pieta," or lamentation of angels over the dead Saviour.

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