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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
mourn .
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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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
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'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
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Thou badest me lie down on thy couch, and thy son, for whom thou mournest, covered me.
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders
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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
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Be of good cheer, for he whom thou mournest is not dead, nor shall his coming be much longer delayed.
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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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