All 7 Uses
lament
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Madame Bovary
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- How she listened at first to the sonorous lamentations of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity!†
Chpt 1.6lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- He, too, the hairdresser, lamented his wasted calling, his hopeless future, and dreaming of some shop in a big town—at Rouen, for example, overlooking the harbour, near the theatre—he walked up and down all day from the mairie to the church, sombre and waiting for customers.†
Chpt 1.9lamented = expressed grief or regret
- Then began the eternal lamentation: "Oh, if Heaven had out willed it!†
Chpt 2.5lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- In the distance cattle moved about; neither their steps nor their lowing could be heard; and the bell, still ringing through the air, kept up its peaceful lamentation.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- She was filling her heart with these melodious lamentations that were drawn out to the accompaniment of the double-basses, like the cries of the drowning in the tumult of a tempest.†
Chpt 2.15lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- Lheureux burst into lamentations and reminded her of all the kindnesses he had shown her.†
Chpt 3.5
- She hated no one now; a twilight dimness was settling upon her thoughts, and, of all earthly noises, Emma heard none but the intermittent lamentations of this poor heart, sweet and indistinct like the echo of a symphony dying away.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(lament) to express grief or regret
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(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.