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lamenter|ləˈmɛntə(r)|
[f. lament v. + -er1.]
One who laments or mourns.
1589Rider Eng.-Lat. Dict., A Lamentour, lamentator. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 362 The renued spirit..for sinnes past and committed is an vnfained lamenter. c1610Women 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. 1742Richardson Pamela IV. 405, I might have continu'd on in the Words of the Royal Lamenter. 1748― Clarissa (1811) IV. 7 What a cruelty in my fate! said the sweet lamenter. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. iii. 366 He was a great lamenter of the extremities of the times. |