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Wailing vs Lamentation - What's the difference?

wailing | lamentation |

As nouns the difference between wailing and lamentation

is that wailing is a loud drawn out scream and howl while lamentation is the act of lamenting.

As a verb wailing

is .

wailing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loud drawn out scream and howl.
  • *1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5:
  • *:'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.

    lamentation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of lamenting.
  • A sorrowful cry; a lament.
  • Specifically, mourning.
  • lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
  • A group of swans.

    • Related terms

    * lament * lamentable * lamented

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