lamenting

lamenting

1. present participle and gerund of lament

lamenting (plural lamentings)

1. Lamentation.
   • 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:

     I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,

     shall God to mercie moue.

   • 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]:

     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 […]

   • 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:

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

• alignment, gintleman, manteling