Both Uses of
lament
in
Washington Square
- Two years later Mrs. Sloper gave birth to a second infant—an infant of a sex which rendered the poor child, to the Doctor's sense, an inadequate substitute for his lamented firstborn, of whom he had promised himself to make an admirable man.†
Chpt 1 *
- There were portions left over, light remnants and snippets of irony, which she never knew what to do with, which seemed too delicate for her own use; and yet Catherine, lamenting the limitations of her understanding, felt that they were too valuable to waste and had a belief that if they passed over her head they yet contributed to the general sum of human wisdom.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(lament) to express grief or regret