lamentation

IPA: ɫɑmɛntˈeɪʃʌn

The act of lamenting.
A sorrowful cry; a lament.
Specifically, mourning.
lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
A group of swans.

Examples of "lamentation" in Sentences

His lamentation is lengthened and restlessness is strengthened and he is as he were
"Pity you were so cross to him," observed Matilda, to whom: this lamentation was addressed.
So, too, the poetry of grief and lamentation is one of the deepest and most long-standing elements in poetry.
But amid the lamentation was another current running through the grieving crowds, one of anger and suspicion.
There was none saw him but wept over him and the women all lifted up their voices in lamentation as for the dead.
Do you think we remember your lamentation is a post earlier today on another thread that you had never been polled?
The want of opportunity to pay this compliment to Hector, furnishes Andromache with matter of lamentation, which is related in the Iliad.
Talk to them of education; they will readily acknowledge that it's "a braw thing to be weel learned," and begin a lamentation, which is only shorter than the lamentations of
“O my lord, my lamentation is for thee, because thou art in sore straits, for all thy fair fortune and goodliness and exceeding comeliness, seeing thou hast naught wherewithal to do and receive delight, like unto other men.”
When it arrived, the people of Baghdad went forth to meet it and I went forth with them: and I saw the damsel among the women and she the loudest of them in lamentation, crying out and wailing with a voice that rent the vitals and made the heart ache.