lamenting

== English == === Verb === lamenting present participle and gerund of lament === Noun === lamenting (plural lamentings) Lamentation. 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd,[1] If gronyngs greate, get grace at God, and loude lamentyngs, loue: I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes, shall God to mercie moue. 1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48,[2] Lose not the Moments In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past: One Project foil’d, another should be try’d, === Derived terms === === Anagrams === alignment, gintleman, manteling