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Definition of Lamenters
1. lamenter [n] - See also: lamenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamenters
Literary usage of Lamenters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sheaf of Poems by George Perry (1894)
"O wild lamenters of the smiles That for too brief a season shone ! Ye rude,
harsh-throated chanters ! share With us the burden of a grief That in your ..."
2. Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1855)
"As soon as the chorus enters the house, the lamenters greet the mourner, ...
On the mountains the female lamenters even tear their faces till the blood ..."
3. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1899)
"And in Judah the lamenters were behind the hearse, and they spoke only of the
virtues which he possessed; and the people who were behind them did not repeat ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"The loud cries of so-called lamentation had probably a similar origin, and this
is more marked when the lamenters were strangers to the dead, ..."
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