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What (who) is Lamentation - definition
ARTISTIC GENRE
Lamenters; Laments; Lamentation; Plangent; Miroloyia; Mirolóyia; Lamenter; Death tribute; Funeral tribute; Cumha na Cloinne; Lament for the Children
lamentation
n.
Wailing, moaning, moan, plaint, complaint, lament, ululation, hubbubboo.
lamentation
(lamentations)
A lamentation is an expression of great sorrow. (FORMAL)
It was a time for mourning and lamentation.
...special prayers and lamentations.
N-VAR
Lamentation
·noun The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
II. Lamentation ·noun A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.
Wikipedia
Lament
A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing, moaning and/or crying. Laments constitute some of the oldest forms of writing, and examples exist across human cultures.
Examples of use of Lamentation
1. There was general lamentation about the rising cost of politics.
2. It is a lamentation for a gathering of older men.
3. These poems are a lamentation, strong and moving with a dark, sometimes savage, beauty.
4. The music in the wedding hall turned to wailing and lamentation while the groom rushed to the nearby hospital’s intensive care unit.
5. Yoel Elizur, a faculty member at Hebrew University who was present in Gush Katif during the uprooting, wrote a lamentation of 18 verses.