a. rare–1. [f. LAMENT sb. + -FUL.] Charged with lament; mournful.
1850. Bradford Observer, 21 Nov., 4/3. Here and there, indeed, the lamentful effusions of a Chowler or a Growler might be read in the county print, but such effusions were, even by the Protectionists themselves, valed as nil.
1876. Dowden, Poems, 82. But thou art terrible, with the unrevealed Burden of dim lamentful prophecies.
