Mourning
['mɔːnɪŋ] or ['mɔrnɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one.
Checker: Virgil--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mourn
(n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
(n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.
(a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
(a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.
Checker: Norris
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Lamentation, sorrow, grief.[2]. Weeds, symbol of sorrow.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you wear mourning, omens ill luck and unhappiness. If others wear it, there will be disturbing influences among your friends causing you unexpected dissatisfaction and loss. To lovers, this dream foretells misunderstanding and probable separation.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- He will be marquis some day, and there is no denying that she would make a good marchioness: she looks handsomer than ever in her mourning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I learned later, when I had moved further south, that Belmont had caused more mourning than almost any other battle up to that time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Double sorrow--sadness, bred in Cimmerian caves, robed my soul in a mourning garb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The guests bowed deeply to the mourning parent, and withdrew from their hospitable guide. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It might be myself, or it might be my homely mourning habit, that elicited this mark of contempt; more likely, both. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- However, it justifies me, I suppose, in going into mourning. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The woman looked up at Mrs. Bird, with a keen, scrutinizing glance, and it did not escape her that she was dressed in deep mourning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I finished a large mourning order the day before yesterday. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Everybody noticed that ridiculous mourning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I must have a full suit of mourning, Fagin, and a hatband, to wisit him in, afore he sets out upon his travels. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No longer in mourning, Miss Bella was dressed in as pretty colours as she could muster. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She will be mourning and grieving. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- To how many maimed and mourning millions is the first and sole angel visitant, him easterns call Azrael! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Booth was hurried away into seclusion, and the next morning the city that had been so gay over night with bunting was draped with mourning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mrs. Cadwallader's maid says there's a lord coming who is to marry her when the mourning's over. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To thee do we send up our sighs, mournings and weepings in this valley of tears-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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