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Mourning   /mˈɔrnɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Mourning  n.  
1.
The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
2.
Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. "The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid."
Deep mourning. See under Deep.


verb
Mourn  v. t.  
1.
To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail. "As if he mourned his rival's ill success." "And looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return."
2.
To utter in a mournful manner or voice. "The lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well."
Synonyms: See Deplore.


Mourn  v. i.  (past & past part. mourned; pres. part. mourning)  
1.
To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. "Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her."
2.
To wear the customary garb of a mourner. "We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?" "Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year."


adjective
Mourning  adj.  
1.
Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
2.
Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.
Mourning bride (Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads.
Mourning dove (Zool.), a wild dove (Zenaidura macroura) found throughout the United States; so named from its plaintive note. Called also Carolina dove.
Mourning warbler (Zool.), an American ground warbler (Geothlypis Philadelphia). The male has the head, neck, and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.





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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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