elegy

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Remembering people who have died
bereaved
dear departed
Devon
epitaph
grief
grieve
in memory of someoneidiom
lamented
memento mori
memorial
memory
mourning
remembrance
Remembrance Day
requiem
rest
rest in peaceidiom
rip
shrine
viewing

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lament | American Dictionary

lament
verb[ T ]
us/ləˈment/
to express sadness and regret about something:
He lamented his students’ lack of interest in the classics.
lament
noun[ C ]
us/ləˈment/
an expression of sadness over something, or a complaint:
Baker’s lament was that his schedule kept him away from his family too often.

Examples of lament

lament
Pastoral laments the gap between representation and its imagined subject, and in a sense its subject is this gap.
As the courtiers' lyric laments are realized in action, as their desires are reflected in another, they are simultaneously negated.
The underlying message of these various laments is that the ruler has little autonomy and even less power.
The poet lamented the administration's lack of sartorial wisdom.
She lamented that she had not had much leisure time when she was younger.
Thus, though one laments the omissions in this regard, they are perhaps understandable, relative to the purposes the authors had in mind.
They lamented lack of time for research and fieldwork.
Scenes like these consolidated a conventional association between laments and the feminine voice.
They lamented the demise of baroque bel canto and of the castrato's voice.
The first priority of the government was not the well-being of its subjects, he laments.
Another manager in a bottling company lamented that poor wages caused workers to resign at a rate of 40 per cent annually.
One textbook laments that writers do not follow advice against the passive because they do not understand the concept of voice.
If chiefs told many stories, colonial officials alternated between portraying custom as fixed and timeless and lamenting its vagaries and elusiveness.
Many critics of the argument have lamented the sort of hyper-rationalism of the project.
The shrine, he laments, has been hollowed out, transformed into ' ' the movie set visitors [expect] to see ' ' (191).
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