[f. LAMENT v. + -ER1.] One who laments or mourns.
1589. Rider, Eng.-Lat. Dict., A Lamentour, lamentator.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 362. The renued spirit … for sinnes past and committed is an vnfained lamenter.
c. 1610. Women Saints, 206. This spake I with as highe a voice as I coulde, to the end that I might drowne the sounde of the lamenters.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 405. I might have continu’d on in the Words of the Royal Lamenter. Ibid. (1748), Clarissa (1811), IV. 7. What a cruelty in my fate! said the sweet lamenter.
1861. Tulloch, Eng. Purit., iii. 366. He was a great lamenter of the extremities of the times.
