Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lament

Lament , intransitive verb

[French lamenter, Latin lamentari, from lamentum a lament.]

To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. — 2 Chron. xxxv. 25
Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. — John xvi. 20

Lament , transitive verb

To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. — Dryden

Lament , noun

[Latin lamentum. Compare Lament, v.]

1.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. — Milton
2.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.