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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of mourn.

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mourn +‎ -est

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Examples

  • And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision

  • In vain the words of Echo fell upon his ears, as she prayed him to hearken to her prayer: "Ah, Narkissos, thou mournest for one who can not heed thy sorrow, and thou carest not for her who longs to see thy face and hear thy voice forever."

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Why mournest thou thus, and teasest us [65] concerning our future ills, whoever thou art, O lady?

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • 'Thou must be a glass to thy wife, for in thy face must she see her own; for if when thou laughest she weep, when thou mournest she giggle, the one is a manifest sign she delighteth in others, the other a token she despiseth thee.'

    The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

  • Thou badest me lie down on thy couch, and thy son, for whom thou mournest, covered me.

    Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

  • And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Be of good cheer, for he whom thou mournest is not dead, nor shall his coming be much longer delayed.

    Stories from the Odyssey

  • A prophesier of false things for since many a year hast thou been prophesying the downfall of this city, and now, when thy prophecy has come true, thou sorrowest and mournest.

    The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913

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