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lamentability

noun

Etymology

From lament + -ability.

  1. borrowed from lāmentor — “to wail, weep”
  2. borrowed from lamenter
  3. suffixed as lamentability — “lament + ability”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being lamentable.

    • Mr. Bush . . ., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.
    • Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.
    • The judge's wretchedness is a reflex of Augustine's skepticism about the possibility of justice in this world, and his deep conviction about the genuine lamentability of law's serious imperfections.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA