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Word Meanings - LAMENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii.

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  • REPINER
    One who repines.
  • DISEASEFUL
    1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
  • MURMUR
    1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
  • MURMUROUS
    Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
  • DISEASEFULNESS
    The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ANNOYANCE
    1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
  • REPININGLY
    With repening or murmuring.
  • MURMURATION
    The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
  • MURMURER
    One who murmurs.
  • COMPLAINTFUL
    Full of complaint.
  • EXPOSTULATION
    The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.
  • DISCONTENT
    Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
  • DISCONTENTATION
    Discontent. Ascham.
  • DISCONTENTIVE
    Relating or tending to discontent. "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.
  • DISCONTENTING
    1. Discontented. Shak. 2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
  • DISCONTENTED
    Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
  • REMONSTRANCE
    See MONSTRANCE (more info) 1. The act of remonstrating; as: A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than
  • GRIEVANCER
    One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.
  • REPINE
    1. To fail; to wane. "Reppening courage yields no foot to foe." Spenser. 2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What
  • DISEASEDNESS
    The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
  • HODGKIN'S DISEASE
    A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
  • JUMPING DISEASE
    A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
  • AGGRIEVANCE
    Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
  • LOVE-SICKNESS
    The state of being love-sick.
  • WEIL'S DISEASE
    An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
  • GRAVES' DISEASE
    See DISEASE
  • AERIAL SICKNESS
    A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.
  • INFECTIOUS DISEASE
    Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
  • BASEDOW'S DISEASE
    A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.

 

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