2 uses
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Definition
to express grief or regret
- With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over the wide waters.Chapters 13-15 -- Wheelbarrow; Nantucket; Chowder (55% in)
- It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.Chapters 91-93 -- The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud; Ambergris; The Castaway (69% in)
There are no more uses of "lament" in Moby Dick.
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