lament
verb (used with object)
to feel or express sorrow or regret for.
lamenter
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a word derived from
lament.
Example Sentences
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A natural ecstatic, he was also a chronic depressive: not a passive shut-down case, but a lamenter and yearner.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2010
This winsome adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn celebrated the frontier in music and lyrics by Roger Miller, a wistful lamenter of the lost open road.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heart of the poet, the singer, is now filled with woe; he departs and leaves behind him only the lamenter, the reproacher, the rebel.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Ivan Panin
L. also has no expression for "mak gude watch," but reads, "Si avis evaserit e cavea autsine compare, velut turtur, ego remanebo sola ut lamenter absentiam tuam quamlibet brevem."
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
Nevertheless, the loudest lamenter is not unworthy; and so I repeat that he shall have the silk suit.
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
