Lament vs Outcry - What's the difference?
lament | outcry | Synonyms |
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
a loud cry or uproar
a strong protest
To cry out.
* 1919 , Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1
To cry louder than.
* 2003 , Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)
* 2007 , Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)
In intransitive terms the difference between lament and outcry
is that lament is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn while outcry is to cry out.In transitive terms the difference between lament and outcry
is that lament is to feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail while outcry is to cry louder than.lament
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Derived terms
* (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.
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Noun
(outcries)- His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
- The proposal was met with a public outcry .
Verb
- I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.
- ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...
- The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.