"lamenting" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lamentings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lamenting (plural lamentings)
  1. Lamentation.
    Sense id: en-lamenting-en-noun-0zXZ71Tk

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} lamenting
  1. present participle and gerund of lament Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: lament
    Sense id: en-lamenting-en-verb-K6E9MeMu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "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",
          "roman": "shall God to mercie moue.",
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          "ref": "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",
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