All 4 Uses of
lament
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
Scene 3.1 *lament = express grief or regret
- Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, And study help for that which thou lament'st.†
Scene 3.1
- After your dire-lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber-window With some sweet consort: to their instruments Tune a deploring dump; the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.†
Scene 3.2lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- And at that time I made her weep agood; For I did play a lamentable part.†
Scene 4.4lamentable = regrettablestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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.