Supplicat vs Lament - What's the difference?
supplicat | lament |
(UK, historical, universities) A petition, especially a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
(Webster 1913)
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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
As nouns the difference between supplicat and lament
is that supplicat is a petition, especially a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with while lament is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.As a verb lament is
to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.supplicat
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(en noun)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.