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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lamenting, wailing, wailfuladjective

    vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression

    "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare

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  1. lamenting

    Lamenting refers to the act of expressing deep sorrow, regret, grief, or mourning for something or someone. It often involves expressing these feelings openly and emotionally, typically due to a loss or disappointment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lamenting

    of Lament

  2. Lamentingnoun

    lamentation

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lamenting in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lamenting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of lamenting in a Sentence

  1. Chris Graythen/Getty Images:

    Hopefully they’re taking advantage of (the season) rather than lamenting the fact that they are slow, they’re getting good experience in racing Formula One, because there’s a lot to be said by just racing with these guys.

  2. Jay Williams:

    We spent 25 years, lamenting, stuck, waiting, the conversation here has not only started sooner, but they've made significant progress early on.

  3. Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry:

    I braced myself, went in. The room was dimly lit, unfamiliar - I ’d been inside it only once in my life. I moved ahead uncertainly, and there she was. I stood, frozen, staring. I stared and stared. It was difficult, but I kept on, thinking how I ’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end. Years of lamenting that lack of proof, postponing my grief for want of proof. Now I thought : Proof. Careful what Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry wish for.

  4. Ekrem Imamoglu:

    Istanbul is clearly now the fundamental centre of this disease, if just 15% of people go out in Istanbul, that is 2.5 million people - as much as the (entire population of some) cities in Europe which are lamenting their situation.

  5. Epictetus:

    Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

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