ppl. a. [f. LAMENT v. + -ED1.] Mourned for; bewailed; regretted.

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1611.  Cotgr., Regretté,… bewayled, lamented.

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1667.  Flavel, Saint Indeed (1754), 73. Involuntary and lamented distractions.

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1709.  Pope, Ess. Crit., 733. This humble praise, lamented shade! receive.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, IV. 576. Lamented change!

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1859.  M. Thomson, Story of Cawnpore, 83. We thought it a more savoury meal than any of the recherché culinary curiosities of the lamented Soyer.

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1864.  Le Fanu, Uncle Silas, I. xxiv. 297. Perhaps you would be so good as to show us which of the cabinets in this room your late lamented father pointed out as that to which this key belongs.

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  Hence † Lamentedly adv.

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1645.  Milton, Colast., 24. Somtimes they are not both actors, but the one of them most lamentedly passive.

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