A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1513-1578
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Lamenting, -yng, vbl. n. [e.m.E. (1530).] Lamenting, lamentation. —1513 Doug. xi. ii. 7.
A thousand men … At hys last honour … And tobe present at the lamentyng Of hys fader c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5497.
Non may mak vtheris confortyng, Bot dule for dule, and lamentyng a1578 Pitsc. I. 143/29.
No man … supponit ony thing of hir bot murning and lamenting for hir husband
