All 18 Uses
lament
in
Dante's Inferno
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- Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding though the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat.†
Canto 1-3laments = expresses grief or regret
- And I, "Master, what is so grievous to them, that makes them lament so bitterly?"†
Canto 1-3lament = express grief or regret
- Now the woeful notes begin to make themselves heard; now am I come where much lamentation smites me.†
Canto 4-6 *lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- When they arrive before its rushing blast, here are shrieks, and bewailing, and lamenting; here they blaspheme the power divine.†
Canto 4-6lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- It will hold high its front long time, keeping the other under heavy burdens, however it may lament and be shamed thereat.†
Canto 4-6lament = express grief or regret
- [1] Here he set end unto the lamentable sound†
Canto 4-6lamentable = regrettablestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- And he, who well knew the handmaids of the queen of the eternal lamentation, said to me, "Behold the fell Erinnyes; this is Megaera on the left side, she who weeps on the right is Alecto, Tisiphone is in the middle," and therewith he was silent.†
Canto 7-9lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- All their lids were lifted; and such dire laments were issuing forth from them as truly seemed of wretches and of sufferers.†
Canto 7-9laments = expresses grief or regret
- Man may lay violent hands upon himself and on his goods; and, therefore, in the second round must needs repent without avail whoever deprives himself of your world, gambles away and squanders his property, and laments there where he ought to be joyous.†
Canto 10-12
- [2] [2] Laments on earth because of violence done to what should have made him happy†
Canto 10-12
- They make lament upon the strange trees.†
Canto 13-15lament = express grief or regret
- Then I became more afraid to lean over, because I saw fires and heard laments; whereat I, trembling, wholly cowered back.†
Canto 16-18laments = expresses grief or regret
- And the good Master set me not down yet from his haunch, till he brought me to the cleft of him who was thus lamenting with his shanks.†
Canto 19-21lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- So from bridge to bridge we went, speaking other things, which my Comedy careth not to sing, and held the suffimit, when we stopped to see the next cleft of Malebolge and the next vain lamentations; and I saw it wonderfully dark.†
Canto 19-21lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- Within it they lament for the artifice whereby the dead Deidamia still mourns for Achilles, and there for the Palladium they bear the penalty.†
Canto 25-27lament = express grief or regret
- We rejoiced thereat, and soon it turned to lamentation, for from the strange land a whirlwind rose, and struck the fore part of the vessel.†
Canto 25-27lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- If all the people were again assembled, that of old upon the fateful land of Apulia lamented for their blood shed by the Trojans,[1] and in the long war that made such high spoil of the rings,[2] as Livy writes, who erreth not; with those that, by resisting Robert Guiscard,[3] felt the pain of blows, and the rest whose bones are still heaped up at Ceperano,[4] where every Apullan was false, and there by Tagliacozzo,[5] where without arms the old Alardo conquered,—and one should show his limb pierced through, and one his lopped off, it would be nothing to equal the grisly mode of the ninth pit.†
Canto 28-30lamented = expressed grief or regret
- When we were above the last cloister of Malebolge so that its lay brothers could appear to our sight, divers lamentations pierced me, that had their arrows barbed with pity; wherefore I covered my ears with my hands.†
Canto 28-30lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
Definitions:
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(1)
(lament) to express grief or regret
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(2)
(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.