KJV Dictionary - lament
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LAMENT
LAMENT', v.i. L. lamentor.
1. To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2Chron. 35.
2. To regret deeply; to feel sorrow.
LAMENT', v.t. To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore.
One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
LAMENT', n. L. lamentum. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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