different between elegize vs lament

English

Etymology

elegy +? -ize

Verb

elegize (third-person singular simple present elegizes, present participle elegizing, simple past and past participle elegized)

1. (transitive) To compose an elegy for.
2. (intransitive) To compose an elegy.
3. (transitive) To praise, as if in an elegy.

Quotations

• 1821 Lord Byron, Imitation

  Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.

• 2001 Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures: Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship

  Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.

English

Etymology

From French lamenter, from Latin l?mentor (“I wail, weep”), from l?menta (“wailings, laments, moanings”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /l??m?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

lament (plural laments)

1. An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
2. A song expressing grief.

Derived terms

• lamentful (rare)

Translations

Verb

lament (third-person singular simple present laments, present participle lamenting, simple past and past participle lamented)

1. (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.

   • Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.

2. (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "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 laugh'd at follies, one lamented crimes.

Synonyms

• bewail

Translations

Related terms

Further reading

• lament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lament in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Mantle, manlet, mantel, mantle, mental

French

Verb

lament

1. third-person plural present indicative of lamer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of lamer

Anagrams

• mêlant, mental