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# lamentation

«lamentation» in Mova's school dictionary: **Loud crying and sad words because of grief or loss** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lamentation, lamentations; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Loud crying and sad words because of grief or loss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#m1)

2) (Bible) Lamentations is a book of the Bible: sad poems about the fall of Jerusalem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal, old-fashioned word in stories, poems and the Bible: it tells the reader there is deep sorrow, often loud. In The Wind in the Willows Toad breaks into lamentations in his dungeon. Everyday words: crying, wailing.

### examples

- There was weeping and lamentation in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#x1)
- Toad flung himself down in bitter lamentation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#x2)
- The lamentations of the mourners filled the church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#x3)
- The Book of Lamentations is in the Old Testament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#x4)
- Her lamentations over the broken vase went on all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#x5)
- The poem is a lamentation for a lost friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#x6)
- At this story the parents redoubled their lamentations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/#x7)

### note

From the verb «lament» (to mourn) + -ation. Stress: la-men-TAY-shun. Often humorous today for too much complaining.

### In the corpora

- [And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.19/)
- [And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.295/)
- [And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they made lamentation for him: 'Alas, my brother!'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.515/)
- [Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.440/)
- ['And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.688/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lamentation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.