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Quotation dates: 1375-1400, 1456-1578
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Lamentacioun(e, -tioun(e, n. Also: -cion, -tion(e; lementatioune. [ME. lamentacioun (1382), e.m.E. -cion, -tion, OF. lamentation, L. lāmentātio.]
1. Lamentation, mourning; also, complaining.(1) 1375 Barb. xx. 282.
The lamentacioune … That thai folk for thair lord maid 1456 Hay I. 57/19.
It was … pitee to here the crye and the lamentacioun … maid … quhen thai herd the newis a1500 Henr. Fab. 1278.
This scheip … I … hard … mak sair lamentatioun a1500 Ib. 1535.
Be he had maid this lamentatioun a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1108.
Off diuers folkis … gret wounder is For … thingis transitorie Quhilk makis sa large lamentacioun(2) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 930.
A dede cors [they] lad … done befor his feite With lamentacione and greite 1456 Hay II. 75/8.
With grete regrate and lamentacioun that he micht no mare be with him a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1141.
Haue reuth of Marijs lamentacioun a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ (S.T.S.) 1430.
For hir sueit sonis dede [she] Remanit still in lamentacioun 1533 Boece ix. vii. 303.
The granis and lamentaciouns of woundit men 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 23.
Sa far from casting hirself downe into base lamentatiouns and teiris 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 53.
My pen culd … but … ingraffe greater dolour and lamentatioune in thair hertis a1578 Pitsc. I. 172/1.
Quhen thir lamentatiouns and cryis of the poore come befoir the King(b) a1578 Ib. 327/25.
The King schew to thame his mynd witht great lementatioune, how he was haldin in subiection
2. A lament. 1461 Liber Pluscardensis 383.
Nocht withstandyng thaire is mare of this lamentacioun … xviii coupill, … this ma suffyce a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 68.
The lamentatioun And wofull end of this lustie Creisseid a1500 Ib. 597.
Quhen he had hard hir greit infirmitie, Hir legacie and lamentatioun 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 223.
I hard this dolent lamentatioun
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