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Mourning   /mˈɔrnɪŋ/   Listen
Mourning

noun
1.
State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one.  Synonym: bereavement.
2.
The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief.  Synonym: lamentation.
adjective
1.
Sorrowful through loss or deprivation.  Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing.


Mourn

verb
(past & past part. mourned; pres. part. mourning)
1.
Feel sadness.
2.
Observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one.



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"Mourning" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the street together and spread the white linen covering carefully over the stark body before they knelt, one on each side. Of the thousands who had filled the Piazzale at sunset hundreds came now to see them mourning the broken thing that lay between. Olive was aware of many faces, of the murmuring of a great crowd, and shame was added to the horror that held her fast. She folded her hands and tried to keep her eyes fixed upon them. Then she began ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... the death of her husband, the marquise received letters from her grandfather, M. Joannis de Nocheres, begging her to come and finish her time of mourning at Avignon. Having been fatherless almost from childhood, Mademoiselle de Chateaublanc had been brought up by this good old man, whom she loved dearly; she hastened accordingly to accede to his invitation, and prepared everything ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE GANGES--1657 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... thy spirit move? Look down! whence comes the rescue to the household of thy love? As the All-Commander's lightning falls the Vengeance from above! A shriek from thousand voices; a thunder crash; a groan; A thousand homes in mourning—a thousand deaths in one! Woe to the Sons of Darkness, for the Stranger wields his own! Oh, hide that scene of horror in the deepest shades of night! Look upward to the welkin, where the Vessel fades from sight ... But the Veil is rent for ever by the Hand that veiled ...
— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg
... too, may be inly praying—vainly, earnestly essaying To forget some matchless mate, beloved yet lost for evermore. He hath donned a suit of mourning, and, all earthly comfort scorning, Broods alone from night till morning. By thy memories ...
— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various
... It was a Bond Street crystal-gazer transplanted to Fifth Avenue told her who she really was: you know Sayda Sabri, the woman who has the illuminated mummy? It's Cleopatra's idea that Monny's second mourning for Peter should be ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson


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