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What is a lamentation?

What is a lamentation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of lamenting.
  2. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
  3. Specifically, mourning.
  4. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
  5. A group of swans.
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It is also a lamentation for a modern Algeria gripped by pious fundamentalism.
You have no idea what a confusion and lamentation there was all over the State.
His skald, Thorkell, wrote a telling lamentation for his dead master, which given the foolishness of his actions does not seem truly deserved.
Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline.
English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation.
In other words, it is much better to have defiant, life-affirming laughter than tears and lamentation.

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