All 11 Uses of
lament
in
Wuthering Heights
- The fingers relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid against it, and stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer.†
p. 17.8lamentable = regrettablestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- He seized a tureen of hot apple sauce (the first thing that came under his gripe) and dashed it full against the speaker's face and neck; who instantly commenced a lament that brought Isabella and Catherine hurrying to the place.†
p. 41.2lament = express grief or regret
- For himself, he grew desperate: his sorrow was of that kind that will not lament.†
p. 46.2
- When I refused to go, and when she found her entreaties did not move me, she went lamenting to her husband and brother.†
p. 64.6 *lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- I suppose we shall have plenty of lamentations now — I see we shall — but they can't keep me from my narrow home out yonder: my resting-place, where I'm bound before spring is over!†
p. 93.1lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- This lamentation drew no notice from me: I went briskly to work, sighing to remember a period when it would have been all merry fun; but compelled speedily to drive off the remembrance.†
p. 103.2lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- Pausing in her lamentations, she surveyed him with a glance of awe and horror, then burst forth anew.†
p. 142.9lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager to join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed the news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her, by affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get him'; and there were no hopes of that.†
p. 153.1
- Catherine quelled her lamentations also, took a seat opposite, and looked solemnly into the fire.†
p. 174.3
- Linton complied; and had he been unrestrained, would probably have spoiled all by filling his epistles with complaints and lamentations.†
p. 188.2
- He's forgotten all I've done for him, and made on him, and goan and riven up a whole row o' t' grandest currant-trees i' t' garden!' and here he lamented outright; unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries, and Earnshaw's ingratitude and dangerous condition.†
p. 231.9lamented = expressed grief or regret
Definitions:
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(1)
(lament) to express grief or regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music -- as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.