All 6 Uses of
lament
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!†
p. 90.6lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.†
p. 107.9 *lamented = expressed grief or regret
- 'The path of my departure was free,' and there was none to lament my annihilation.†
p. 131.5lament = express grief or regret
- This suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event; tell me what new scene of death has been acted, and whose murder I am now to lament?†
p. 184.7
- You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.†
p. 223.2
- It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the victim of your malignity is withdrawn from your power.†
p. 223.3
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.