Definition of Bereavement

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Definition of Bereavement
	Bereavement The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death. Related Definitions: Being, Bereaved, By, Death, Deprivation, Loss, Of, Relative, State, The

Bereavement Quotations

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
Jules Renard

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Dean Inge

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Dean Inge

Bereavement Translations

bereavement in German is Verlust
bereavement in Latin is orbitas
bereavement in Spanish is desamparo

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