lamenting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lament

plural lamentings

1. Lamentation.

   I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,

   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

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   The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death[…]

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]

   One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,

   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