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Definition of Laments
1. lament [v] - See also: lament
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laments
Literary usage of Laments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present : Savage and Civilized by Arthur Saunders Thomson (1859)
"laments. — Love songs. — Time chants. — War and Jeering songs.—Stories.—Fables.
... As many of the laments, songs, and stories referred to love, war, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and laments, with singular propriety, the misfortune of a monarch, from whom
a venal tribe of courtiers perpetually labour to conceal the truth. ..."
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