mourn
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Definition of mourn
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ambitransitive)To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
“For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”
“We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?”
“Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.”
“Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.”
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verb
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(ambitransitive)To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
“For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”
“We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?”
“Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.”
“Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.”
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(ambitransitive)To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.
“In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.”
- (transitive)To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- (intransitive)To wear mourning.
noun
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(countable, literary, uncountable)Sorrow, grief.
“Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle”
- (countable, uncountable)A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
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