mourning

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  1. noun The actions or expressions of one who has suffered a bereavement.
  2. noun Conventional outward signs of grief for the dead, such as a black armband or black clothes.
  3. noun The period during which a death is mourned.

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  • In the extremity of his sorrow he had commanded a general Court mourning, and himself set the example by assuming a black dress for the first week; but as his regret became moderated, he exchanged his sables for a suit of violet, in which costume he received a deputation from the Parliament of Paris which was sent to condole with him upon the bereavement that he had undergone! —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1
  • I have been in mourning, and mourning is dark and shrouded. —  New Statesman
  • Lighting candles and singing in Spanish - mourning the vote to continue the Pomona traffic checkpoint grant —  Latest Articles
  • Mother, what in the name of all that's tasteful, makes you clothe her by night in Chinese mourning It was her own choice," replied Mrs. Gleason, taking the weeping child in her own lap. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
  • Here they have a peculiar custom as regards mourning, which is observed only till the next Monday or Thursday whichever falls first. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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  1. from Middle English mournyng, moorning, mornyng, from Anglo-Saxon murnung, mourning, verbal noun of murnan, mourn: see mourn.
 

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