All 6 Uses of
lament
in
Antony and Cleopatra
- If there were no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented: this grief is crown'd with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new petticoat:—and, indeed, the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.†
Scene 1.2lamented = expressed grief or regret
- Our fortune on the sea is out of breath, And sinks most lamentably.†
Scene 3.10
- The miserable change now at my end Lament nor sorrow at: but please your thoughts In feeding them with those my former fortunes Wherein I liv'd, the greatest prince o' the world, The noblest; and do now not basely die, Not cowardly put off my helmet to My countryman, a Roman by a Roman Valiantly vanquish'd.†
Scene 4.15lament = express grief or regret
- And strange it is That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds.†
Scene 5.1
- let me lament, with tears
Scene 5.1 *lament = expressing grief or regret
- High events as these Strike those that make them; and their story is No less in pity than his glory which Brought them to be lamented.†
Scene 5.2lamented = 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.