dictionary definitions for "mourn"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  mourn
      v 1: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child"
      2: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved
         one

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mourn \Mourn\, v. t.
     1. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to
        bewail.
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              As if he mourned his rival's ill success. --Addison.
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              And looking over the hills, I mourn
              The darling who shall not return.     --Emerson.
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     2. To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
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              The lovelorn nightingale
              Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
                                                    --Milton.
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     Syn: See Deplore.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mourn \Mourn\ (m[=o]rn), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mourned
     (m[=o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Mourning.] [AS. murnan; akin to
     OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. ma['u]rnan.]
     1. To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be
        sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or
        sadness.
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              Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for
              her.                                  --Gen. xxiii.
                                                    2.
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     2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
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              We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
                                                    --Shak.
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              Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.
                                                    --Pope.
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