Lament vs Monody - What's the difference?
lament | monody |
To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
* Bible, John xvi. 20
To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
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* Dryden
An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy.
A monotonous or mournful noise.
(music) A composition having a single melodic line.
As nouns the difference between lament and monody
is that lament is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness while monody is an ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.As a verb lament
is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.lament
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* (l) (rare)Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.