All 8 Uses of
lament
in
Pride and Prejudice
- After breakfast, the girls walked to Meryton to inquire if Mr. Wickham were returned, and to lament over his absence from the Netherfield ball.†
p. 113.7 *lament = express grief or regret
- To these highflown expressions Elizabeth listened with all the insensibility of distrust; and though the suddenness of their removal surprised her, she saw nothing in it really to lament; it was not to be supposed that their absence from Netherfield would prevent Mr. Bingley's being there; and as to the loss of their society, she was persuaded that Jane must cease to regard it, in the enjoyment of his.†
p. 115.0
- After lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation that Mr. Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn, and the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration, that though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take care to have two full courses.†
p. 118.7lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather.†
p. 217.7lament = express grief or regret
- Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House.†
p. 221.9lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes' conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must principally be owing.†
p. 272.9
- After joining in general lamentations over the dreadful sequel of this event, which Elizabeth considered as all but certain, and Miss Bennet could not assert to be wholly impossible, the former continued the subject, by saying, "But tell me all and everything about it which I have not already heard.†
p. 275.3
- And it is the more to be lamented, because there is reason to suppose as my dear Charlotte informs me, that this licentiousness of behavior in your daughter has proceeded from a faulty degree of indulgence; though, at the same time, for the consolation of yourself and Mrs. Bennet, I am inclined to think that her own disposition must be naturally bad, or she could not be guilty of such an enormity, at so early an age.†
p. 281.8lamented = expressed grief or regret
Definition:
to express grief or regret