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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



... grandson!'" He burst out a laughing. "No! no! that won't do. I will try so—'Oh! my heart! Oh! my heart! ha! ha! ha!'. That won't do either. I will cry, 'Oh my grandson obiquadj!'"[21] This satisfied him, and he remained in his lodge and fasted, till his days of mourning were over. "Now," said he, "I will go in search of him." He set out and travelled some time. At last he came to a great lake. He then raised the same cries of lamentation for his grandson which had pleased him. He sat down near a small brook that emptied itself into the lake, ...
— The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians • Henry R. Schoolcraft

... a valley of Hinnom; compacts with it are covenants with hell. But here is one holy angel with its music; a ministering spirit; but is she a Lot in Sodom? Abdiel in the revolted principality? a desolate, mourning Rizpah on that rock which overlooks four millions of ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams

... game, And who so els his bounteous minde did trie*, Whether he shepheard be, or shepheards swaine, (For manie did, which doo it now denie,) 235 Awake, and to his song a part applie: And I, the whilest you mourne for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser

... bells, let mourning shows be spread, For Love is dead: All Love is dead, infected With plague of deep disdain: Worth, as nought worth, rejected, And faith fair scorn doth gain. From so ungrateful fancy; From such a female frenzy; From them that use men thus, ...
— A Defence of Poesie and Poems • Philip Sidney

... camping ground; The glow and grace of flowers will flood those mounds An ever-widening sea of billowy bloom; And not least lovely shall my grave-sod be, With Myrtles blue, and nestling Violets, And Star-flowers pale with watching—Pansies, dark, With mourning thoughts, and Lilies saintly pure; Deep-hearted Roses, sweet as buried love, And Woodbine-blossoms dripping honeyed dew Over a tablet and a sculptured name. There little song-birds, careless of my sleep, Shall shake fine raptures from their throats, and thrill With ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin


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