Definition of "lamentable"

In what a lamentable caſe were I,If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene iv

Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.

1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86