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The Alaska lament is the second recent occasion in which demands for a political mulligan have been raised.

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  1. transitive verb To express grief for or about; mourn: lament a death.
  2. transitive verb To regret deeply; deplore: He lamented his thoughtless acts.
  3. intransitive verb To grieve audibly; wail.
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  • The Alaska lament is the second recent occasion in which demands for a political mulligan have been raised. —  The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
  • This lament is a ritual like the political Ash Wednesday itself. —  Indybay newswire
  • To his bride Hyperion had promised a redeemed Greece--a lament is all that he can bring her. —  Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry
  • The truly sad part of this lament is the fact that in late 2005, even after the San Diego month after month real estate sales figures were off double digits, and after most real estate developers were offering huge cash incentives, the main-stream media still did not raise any red flags. —  Realty Times Real Estate News Channel
  • The occasion for this lament was the sparsely attended funeral of Thomas Paine, who died 200 years ago, in June 1809, at the age of 72, and was buried in the small farm he owned in what was then the rural hamlet of New Rochelle, 20 miles north of New York City. —  Red Pepper
 

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lamentation ·  sob ·  wail ·  regret ·  weep ·  refrain ·  exclamation ·  entreaty ·  plead ·  dirge ·  whine ·  cadence
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English lementen, from Old French lamenter, from Latin lāmentārī, from lāmentum, lament.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian lamento, from L, lamentum, usually in plural lamenta, a wailing, moaning; with formative -mentum (see -ment), from the root *la, seen also in latrare, bark, fir. π/άςειν snarl, Puss, laietĭ, bark, scold.
  2. from French lamenter = Spanish Portuguese lamentar = Italian lamentare, from Latin lamentari, wail, weep, from lamentum, a wailing, lament: see lament, n.
 

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