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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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The whole world will eventually be in disorder, and the sound of lamentation will be heard everywhere.
Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline.
But not lamentations in the sense of tombs of the period, rather lamentation on the loss of meaning in art, a reflection on art itself.
The drama opens with Boni's lamentation about the struggles of life in Bonikope.
Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
It is also a lamentation for a modern Algeria gripped by pious fundamentalism.

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