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Mourning

noun

State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one. Synonym: bereavement.

The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief. Synonym: lamentation.

adjective

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation. Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing.

Mourn

verb

(past & past part. mourned; pres. part. mourning)

Feel sadness.

Observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one.

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"Mourning" Quotes from Famous Books

... are mourning was especially dear to me. Her bodily weakness had perfected the intuitive faculties in her. She took her revenge inwardly and lived in the beyond...At our first meeting I thought I should meet her again. It was at Zurich at Wagner's, whose ...

— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated

... taking her hand, "I begged of you to hasten this marriage, instead of waiting until the time of your mourning had expired, that I might have the pleasure of assisting at the ceremony; for to-morrow I and the queen commence a tour through France." And he led Andree up to the queen, who could hardly stand, and did not raise her eyes. The king then, putting Andree's hand into ...

— The Queen's Necklace • Alexandre Dumas pere

... in Lenau—the fleeting nature of all things lovely and desirable.[209] This is one of the characteristic differences between the two poets,—Heine's eye is on the present and the future, much more than on the past; Lenau is ever mourning the happiness that is past and gone. Logically then, thoughts of and yearnings for death are much more frequent with ...

— Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry • Wilhelm Alfred Braun

... Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber, downe into S^t Georges-hall; whence after a little stay, itt was with a slow and solemn pace (much sorrow in most faces discernable) carryed by gentlemen that were of some quallity and in mourning. the Lords in like habitts followed the Royall Corps. the Governor, and severall gentlemen, and officers, and attendants came after."—CAROLINA THRENODIA, p. 80. Harleian ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 • Various

... most profound and sacred problems which can agitate the mind of man. Simple and unostentatious to a degree during his life, the great master left instructions that he was to be buried quietly in the early morning. But for once his wish was disregarded, and amid the mourning of his Alma Mater, his townsfolk and the neighbourhood around, he was laid to rest in the choir of the University Church, which during life he would never enter. As with Kant so with Darwin, all men instinctively feel—even ...

— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan

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