Lamentation n. : The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.Lamentation n. : A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.Example:TaxonomyLamentation, body, Lamentation of Christ, Schiller, the Lamentation, tomb, Jesus, depiction, Entombment, Christ's body, painting, Lamentation over the Dead Christ, free encyclopedia, Mary, scenes, art, Christian art, the cross.Defination from the web:Lamentation works are very often included in cycles of the Life of Christ, and also form the subject of many individual works. ... From these different images another type, the Lamentation itself, arose from the 11th century, always giving a more prominent position to Mary, ...
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