[-ING2.] That laments or mourns.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 28. The … lamenting looke of Lucrecia. Ibid., 44. The lamenting Elegiack.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 1079. By this, lamenting Philomel had ended The well-tuned warble of her nightly sorrow.
1674. R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 122. He domineering through deficiency in Medicine, causeth the lamenting Patient to cry out … Give me a Medicine or else I die.
a. 1822. Shelley, Dante’s Convito, 10. How the lamenting spirit moans in it.
1857. Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art, i. (1868), 4. They saw kings and rich men coming down to the shore of Acheron, in lamenting and lamentable crowds.
Hence Lamentingly adv.
c. 1610. Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (1735), 10. Then said the Treasurer lamentingly, ‘My Life or Warding is a small Matter.’
1655. Simeon Ashe, Funeral Serm. R. Robinson, 18 June, 7. Laying lamentingly to heart the death of righteous and mercifull ones.
1804. J. Grahame, Sabbath (1839), 25/2. When sad the voice of Cona, in the gale, Lamentingly the song of Selma sang.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 435. He informs [them], very lamentingly, that they must grow old.
