lamentive

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lamentive (comparative more lamentive, superlative most lamentive)

  1. Being or relating to a lamentation.
    • 1859, The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, volume 4, page 129:
      With the Death's-head moth, this sound is given out when confined or taken into the band, and is likened to the cry of a mouse, but is said to be more plaintive and even lamentive.