All 5 Uses of
lament
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Mrs Florence MacCabe, relict of the late Patk MacCabe, deeply lamented, of Bride Street.†
Chpt 3 *lamented = expressed grief or regret
- That voice was a lamentation.†
Chpt 11lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- There master Courtenay, sitting in his own chamber, gave his rede and master Justice Andrews, sitting without a jury in the probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first chargeant upon the property in the matter of the will propounded and final testamentary disposition in re the real and personal estate of the late lamented Jacob Halliday, vintner, deceased, versus Livingstone, an infant, of unsound mind, and another.†
Chpt 12lamented = expressed grief or regret
- Lamentations.†
Chpt 15lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- All meantime were loudly lamenting the falling off in Irish shipping, coastwise and foreign as well, which was all part and parcel of the same thing.†
Chpt 16lamenting = expressing 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.