Definition of "lamenting"

If gronyngs greate, get grace at God, / and loude lamentyngs, loue: / I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes, / shall God to mercie moue.

1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd

The night has been unruly: where we lay,Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death […]

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iii]

Lose not the Moments / In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past: / One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,

1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48