lamentability

English

Etymology

From lament +‎ -ability.

Noun

lamentability (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
    • 1993, Judith Butler, “Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia”, in Robert Gooding-Williams, editor, Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising‎[1], digital, published 2009, →ISBN:
      Mr. Bush . . ., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.
    • 2000, Michael J. Meyer, Literature and Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 95:
      Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.
    • 2001, Kevin Crotty, Law's Interior, →ISBN, page 137:
      The judge's wretchedness is a reflex of Augustine's skepticism about the possibility of justice in this world, and his deep conviction about the genuine lamentability of law's serious imperfections.

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