Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
In what a lamentable caſe were I, If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?
From Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).
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