Examples of 'lamentation' in a sentence

Meaning of "lamentation"

lamentation (noun): the passionate expression of grief or sorrow. This term is commonly used in the context of mourning, funeral ceremonies, or poetic works
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  • The act of lamenting.
  • A sorrowful cry; a lament.
  • Specifically, mourning.
  • lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge

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The lamentation from his profaned sanctuary.
I refuse to hear the lamentation of their souls.
It is lamentation music and recalls sad events.
They acknowledge with lamentation their unbelief.
Cocytus means the river of wailing or lamentation.
There was no lamentation made under these calamities.
Her vain protestation her sad lamentation.
So this sort of lamentation is never done by a learned man.
And all your songs into lamentation.
So much for the lamentation of their women.
And both will boil in hells of lamentation.
We had no need of lamentation and strains of sorrow.
Let us not waste time in lamentation.
Great was the lamentation of the people.
Others it condemns to grief and lamentation.

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For their lamentation there was none to.
Those who interpret these words as a lamentation are mistaken.
There were lamentation and mourning among the people.
But this book is no mere lamentation of despair.
Nänie is a lamentation on the inevitability of death.
That would bring an end to lamentation and grief.
The wall of lamentation turning into a wall of destruction.
I lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this week.
Today we hear a lamentation that followed that horror.
Passing beyond sorrow and lamentation.
The lamentation awakened by her destruction.
Punished because of the lamentation of the living.
The lamentation music also varies in different regions.
The real matter for lamentation is that they.
We can huddle together and sing songs of lamentation.
And that begins with lamentation and repentance.
We must first liberate creation from its lamentation.
Lamentation that you are so unhappy.
Intense and beautiful in its lamentation.
Andtohearthe lamentation of their women.
Its great sounds are cries of lamentation.
The lamentation of their women.
And ttheir widows made no lamentation.
Absurd lamentation with two goddesses and crumbled meringues.
They mourned with great lamentation.
The lamentation of their lamentors.
In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you.
Great lamentation about him.
He had forbidden mourning and lamentation.
Lamentation for the princes.
Mourning and lamentation is heard.
Lamentation would not bring my lovely girls back to life.
No longer is there any lamentation over the cold it suffered.
Lamentation is a collection of five poems.
The cry of lamentation is heard.

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