Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weep or mourn over: as, “women that … bemourned him,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mourn over.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, rare To
weep ormourn over.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bemourn.
Examples
-
There is some romance in the San Francisco cooking, too, if the oldtimers who bemourn the old days only realized it.
Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910
-
How far from thee is subtilty and how speedily hast thou forgotten mine injunctions wherewith I enjoined thee saying, 'Believe not aught save that whereon thine eye is cast nor regret and bemourn the past nor at what cometh rejoice too fast.'
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
-
An thou, O Abel, be slain this day * Thy death I bemourn with heart torn and lone.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
-
It is good that we bemourn him, and mingle with the winds the voices of our lamentation, for who shall now stand in the place of Susu-ceicha.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
bilby commented on the word bemourn
As if mourn didn't sound woeful enough, bemourn is at least another hanky's worth.
July 26, 2008