Definition of "lamentations" []

• Plural form of lamentation. (noun)

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• "His cheeks filled out, and his eye grew bright; no longer did he waste his leisure in lamentations, but dug and planted his little garden until it yielded him richly of the fruits of the earth, and the proceeds helped to swell the silver coins in his good wife's stocking."
• "Compare Ps 40: 8, Margin, as to Christ's inner complete appropriation of God's word. thy belly bitter -- parallel to Eze 2: 10, "There was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe." as honey -- (Ps 19: 10; 119: 103)."
• "If I did not know that the exercise of your profession has habituated you to the hearing of complaints, I should make a conscience of troubling you with my correspondence, which may be truly called the lamentations of Matthew Bramble."