lamenting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of lament

noun

1. Lamentation.

   “I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,”

   “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[…]”

   “One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,”