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US
/ˈmɔɹnɝ/
]
[ UK /mˈɔːnɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːnɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
How To Use mourner In A Sentence
- Afterwards, mourners were invited for refreshments by the nuns.
- But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
- The introject and the corresponding self-image of the mourner are in a constant and endless relationship.
- The only mourners at her funeral are the women from the refuge.
- Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
- One mourner said her journey through the stages of mourning was like being in a cocoon.
- In one sense, Schaller correctly assesses the New Paradigm refuseniks as mourners for the lost order.
- Ancient Greeks buried their dead with lacrimatories, vials full of mourners' tears.
- It means that mourners feel especially freakish and isolated, often even unentitled to speak of their misery. Times, Sunday Times
- No queues of mourners lined the halls to say a final farewell to the man hailed as the workers' hero as his body lay in state at the House of Parliament yesterday.