Dictionary

lamenting en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Lamentation.
   • I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes, 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd, If gronyngs greate, get grace at God, and loude lamentyngs, loue
   • One Project foil’d, another should be try’d, 1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48, Lose not the Moments In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past
   • The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death[…] c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

Forms

Deriveds

unlamenting · lamentingly

lamenting en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of lament
   form of lament