Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A penitent, especially one who makes public announcement of a desire for salvation: used in Methodist churches.
- noun One who has the mourning of the chine.
- noun One who mourns or laments.
- noun One employed to attend funerals in a habit of mourning.
- noun Anything associated with mourning.
- noun In certain localities, at a funeral, one who is recognized as belonging to the circle of those most afflicted by the death and has a special place accordingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
- noun One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a
death ; someone whomourns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
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Examples
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The mourner is cheared, and the anxious have rest;
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Boss has found that such losses are uniquely painful, partly because they deprive people of mourning rituals and can go on until the mourner is “physically and emotionally exhausted from the relentless uncertainty.”
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Corporeal metaphors for the child appear often in the texts, especially when the mourner is not the biological mother.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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• Sensing his potential as an actor, Shashi Kapoor deleted his scene as a junior artist playing a mourner from the English film "Bombay Talkie."
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• Sensing his potential as an actor, Shashi Kapoor deleted his scene as a junior artist playing a mourner from the English film "Bombay Talkie."
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• Sensing his potential as an actor, Shashi Kapoor deleted his scene as a junior artist playing a mourner from the English film "Bombay Talkie."
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To call a mourner by his own name was considered an insult to the departed, and often led to fighting and bloodshed.
Chapter 22. Tabooed Words. § 3. Names of the Dead tabooed 1922
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To call a mourner by his own name was considered an insult to the departed, and often led to fighting and bloodshed.
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To call a mourner by his own name was considered an insult to the departed, and often led to fighting and bloodshed.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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The bench upon which they are commanded to sit upon is called the mourner's bench.
Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker Thomas S. Gaines 1889
reesetee commented on the word mourner
See grayish mourner.
December 21, 2007