Definition of Mourning

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Mourning

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The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.

Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.

Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.

Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.

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Mourning Quotations

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.
Helen Dunmore

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
Jim Ramstad

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.
Jung Chang

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.
Gillian Anderson

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
Ernst Toller

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
Marie de France

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
William Gibson

Mourning Translations

mourning in Dutch is rouw
mourning in French is deuil
mourning in Italian is bruno
mourning in Latin is maeror meror, ploratio, luctus
mourning in Spanish is luto

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