Meanings
- uncountableThe state or characteristic of being lamentable.
Mr. Bush . . ., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.
1993, Judith Butler, “Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia”, in Robert Gooding-Williams, editor, Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising, digital, published 2009, →ISBN2 more examples
Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.
2000, Michael J. Meyer, Literature and Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 95The judge's wretchedness is a reflex of Augustine's skepticism about the possibility of justice in this world, and his deep conviction about the genuine lamentability of law's serious imperfections.
2001, Kevin Crotty, Law's Interior, →ISBN, page 137Synonyms: lamentableness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or characteristic of being lamentable.
Origin
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