How do you pronounce lamenting?

The recorded pronunciation is /ləmˈɛntɪŋ/.

lamenting

/ləmˈɛntɪŋ/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

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verb

present participle and gerund of lament

noun

"I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,"
"The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death[…]"
"One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,"

lamentings (plural)

lamentingly unlamenting

wailing wailful

representing preventing presenting renting inventing dissenting venting consenting unrelenting reinventing cementing misrepresenting

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