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Lamentations

(-s̸hənz)

noun

Bible a book traditionally ascribed to Jeremiah, lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem: abbrev. La, Lam, or Lm

Origin: LL(Ec) Lamentationes, transl. in Vulg. for Gr thrēnoi, in LXX

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