Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bereaving.
- noun The state of being bereaved; grievous loss; particularly, the loss of a relative or friend by death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
bereaved ;deprivation ; especially the loss of arelative bydeath
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- noun state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
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Examples
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"He Who Shapes", drawing as it does on Zelazny's own experience of car accidents and bereavement, is a good ending point for this first selection.
Linkspam for 24-8-2009 nwhyte 2009
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Just as grief serves a purpose in bereavement, so the belief that they have been betrayed helps the United States to get over a defeat.
The World of 1975 1973
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What happened was that they removed from the manual something called the bereavement exclusion.
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And they may be experiencing something that we call complicated bereavement, which is a wish to undo the loss and to undo the grief.
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The inhabitants of Corfu obviously believed that the best part of a bereavement was the funeral, for each seemed more ornate than the last.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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Providence may, indeed, sunder forever those dearest to each other, and the stricken soul accepts the blow as the righteous discipline of a Higher Power; but when the bereavement is the arbitrary dictate of human will, there are no such consolations to sanctify grief and assuage agony.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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In comfortable lives a bereavement is a contrast; in the lives of the wretched it is but one more in the assailing army of woes.
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It will help parents in the uncertain and difficult problem of rearing their children in a way that will make them and keep them a joy in the home, rather than a heartache, a heart break, and the saddest kind of a bereavement, which is too often the case.
Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks 1900
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In comfortable lives a bereavement is a contrast; in the lives of the wretched it is but one more in the assailing army of woes.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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George S. Hillard, a most faithful and serviceable friend, -- not only to Hawthorne during his life, but afterwards as a trustee for his family, and equally kind and helpful to them in their bereavement, which is more than could be said of all his friends, -- especially of
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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