Bereavement
[bɪ'riːvm(ə)nt] or [bɪ'rivmənt]
Definition
(n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Deprivation, loss (especially of friends by death).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans will meet with quick frustration, and where you expect success there will be failure. Bereavement of relatives, or friends, denotes disappointment in well matured plans and a poor outlook for the future.
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Examples
- I inquired, fancying that I had discovered in the incurable grief of bereavement, a key to that same aged lady's desperate ill-humour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In some manner he had learned of my own sad bereavement, and his sympathy was shown in his manner rather than in his words. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I longed to be his; I panted to return: it was not too late; I could yet spare him the bitter pang of bereavement. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I hope no bereavement has befallen her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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