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What is a lamentation?

What is a lamentation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of lamenting.
  2. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
  3. Specifically, mourning.
  4. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
  5. A group of swans.
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But not lamentations in the sense of tombs of the period, rather lamentation on the loss of meaning in art, a reflection on art itself.
The whole world will eventually be in disorder, and the sound of lamentation will be heard everywhere.
In other words, it is much better to have defiant, life-affirming laughter than tears and lamentation.
English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation.
Its walls, while echoing voices of lamentation, reverberate also the shouts of revenge.
It is also a lamentation for a modern Algeria gripped by pious fundamentalism.

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