lamenting
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Noun
Lamentation.
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I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,
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[…]
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One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,
Adjective
vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
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lamenting sinners
wailing mourners
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the wailing wind
wailful bagpipes
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lamentings