Literary notes about Lamented (AI summary)
The word “lamented” is often employed by writers to intensify the emotional resonance of loss or regret. In some narratives, it conveys a shared mourning—a group coming together in sorrow as in [1] and [2]—while in more personal accounts it reflects introspective grief over one's misfortunes or past mistakes, as seen in [3] and [4]. At times it serves as a marker of honor, designating a person or event with a lasting, sorrowful commemoration, as when a character is remembered as “lamented” in [5] or [6]. Through such varied applications, “lamented” becomes a versatile literary tool that encapsulates both individual melancholy and collective mourning.
- A dozen women entered and lamented with her.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane - And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. 23:28.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - and here he lamented outright; unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries, and Earnshaw’s ingratitude and dangerous condition.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - In this emigration, I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident, and knew not how to reproduce it.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Here lies Pip March, Who died the 7th of June; Loved and lamented sore, And not forgotten soon.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Nikolas and a number of his people fell, and his death was greatly lamented.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
