Difference between Lament and Lamentation

LAMENT vs LAMENTATION: NOUN

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
A cry of sorrow and grief
A set form of lamentation or mourning; an elegy; a mourning song or ballad.
An expression of grief or sorrow; a sad complaint; a lamentation.
A song or poem expressing deep grief or mourning.
A feeling or expression of grief; a lamentation.
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
The music for an elegy, or a tune intended to express or excite sorrowful emotion; a mournful air.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
A song expressing grief.
An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.

A group of swans.
Lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
Specifically, mourning.
A sorrowful cry; a lament.
A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.
The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
Plural The music to which the first three lessons, taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, are sung in the Roman Catholic Church, in the office called Tenebræ, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week.
The act of bewailing; expression of sorrow; a mournful outcry.
A lament.
The act of lamenting.
A cry of sorrow and grief
The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
Plural The shorter title of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, one of the poetical books of the Old Testament.

To afflict; distress.
To bewail; mourn for; bemoan; deplore.
Synonyms Lament, Mourn, Grieve; sorrow. Lament expresses always, at least figuratively, an external act. Mourn was originally and is still often the same, but does not now suggest anything audible. Grieve suggests more of a consuming effect upon the person sorrowing. See affliction.
A mournful poem
A lament for the dead
To express sorrow; utter words or sounds of grief; mourn audibly; wail.
To show great sorrow or regret; repine; chafe; grieve.

Complain, Moan, Coronach, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation, Bemoan

Melancholy, Desolation, Sadness, Hymn, Ululation, Despair, Canticle, Anguish, Sorrow, Misery, Sigh, Moan, Plaint, Wail, Lament

Cry, Weep, Mourn, Moan, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation

Melancholy, Desolation, Sadness, Hymn, Ululation, Despair, Canticle, Anguish, Sorrow, Misery, Sigh, Moan, Plaint, Wail, Lament

Pentecostal Lament: Is there a correspondence between the form of the biblical lament Psalms and early Australian Pentecostal prayer?
This is a valuable example of Christologically oriented lament, but it can strip lament of its function as human complaint toward God.
This is the first book I read on lament and the place of lament for the believer.
One does not move from lament to praise, for even in the lament the element of trust is already present.
In these two psalms we pointed out that lament psalms can move back to lament even after praise.
Kemble VA Lament of Aideen for Oscai Lament of Anastasius.
Southern Baptist, and we need to lament that, lament the pain of victims and grieve with them.
Learning to lament and to hear lament means sitting in the darkness with Job?
Christian lament away from imprecation and toward intercession, although room remains for lament?
This commentator categorised lament psalms as a primary category and individual lament psalms and community lament psalms as sub categories.