lamenting

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English

Verb

lamenting

present participle and gerund of lament

Noun

lamenting (plural lamentings)

Lamentation.
- 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd,^[1]
  If gronyngs greate, get grace at God,
  
  and loude lamentyngs, loue:
  
  I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,
  
  shall God to mercie moue.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
  The night has been unruly: where we lay,
  Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
  Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death […]
- 1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48,^[2]
  Lose not the Moments
  
  In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past:
  
  One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,

Anagrams

alignment, gintleman, manteling