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lament·ing

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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

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. Hirotake Asano:

    Instead of lamenting that people no longer visit temples, I wanted to bring the temple to the people.

  3. Billy Kreutzmann -LRB- drums -RRB-:

    There will be some sadness. Some lamenting that was the last show, and because the band will probably play really well that night, I will be elated because the playing was good.

  4. The Washington Times:

    Former Vice PresidentJoseph R. Bidenassailed PresidentTrump’s supporters during a speech Saturday at the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington, lamenting that ‘virulent people’ and the ‘dregs of society’ still had a friend in the White House.

  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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