All 12 Uses
lament
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
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- A place there is below not sad with torments but with darkness only, where the lamentations sound not as wailings, but are sighs; there stay I with the little innocents bitten by the teeth of death before they were exempt from human sin; there stay I with those who were not vested with the three holy virtues, and without vice knew the others and followed all of them.†
Canto 1-11lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- for here through songs one enters, and there below through fierce lamentings.†
Canto 12-22
- [3] Wherefore he to me, "Of his own greatest fault he knows the harm, and therefore it is not to be wondered at if he reprove it, in order that there may be less lamenting on account of it†
Canto 12-22lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- [6] This triform love is lamented down below†
Canto 12-22 *lamented = expressed grief or regret
- The love which abandons itself too much to this[3] is lamented above us in three circles, but how it is reckoned tripartite, I am silent, in order that thou seek it for thyself.†
Canto 12-22
- And he has one foot already in the grave,[10] who soon will lament on account of that monastery, and will be sorry for having had power there; because in place of its true shepherd he has put his son, ill in his whole body and worse in mind, and who was evil-born.†
Canto 12-22lament = express grief or regret
- "Hast thou seen," said he, "that ancient sorceress who above us henceforth is alone lamented?†
Canto 12-22lamented = expressed grief or regret
- [1] We were going on with slow and scanty steps, and I attentive to the shades whom I heard piteously lamenting and bewailing; and peradventure I heard in front of us one crying out, "Sweet Mary," in his lament, even as a woman does who is in travail; and continuing, "So poor wast thou as may be seen by that inn where thou didst lay down thy holy burden.†
Canto 12-22lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- [1] We were going on with slow and scanty steps, and I attentive to the shades whom I heard piteously lamenting and bewailing; and peradventure I heard in front of us one crying out, "Sweet Mary," in his lament, even as a woman does who is in travail; and continuing, "So poor wast thou as may be seen by that inn where thou didst lay down thy holy burden.†
Canto 12-22lament = express grief or regret
- Wherefore if to purify myself I have been among the people who lament their avarice, because of its contrary this has befallen me.†
Canto 12-22
- They came to me then appearing so holy, that, when Domitian persecuted them, not without my tears were their lamentings.†
Canto 12-22
- a lament and song were heard, "Labia mea, Domine,"[1] in such fashion that it gave birth to delight and pain.†
Canto 23-33lament = express 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) 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.