mourn

mourn
    v 1: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child"
    2: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved
       one
    

Mourn \Mourn\, v. t.
   1. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to
      bewail.
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            As if he mourned his rival's ill success. --Addison.
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            And looking over the hills, I mourn
            The darling who shall not return.     --Emerson.
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   2. To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
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            The lovelorn nightingale
            Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
                                                  --Milton.
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   Syn: See {Deplore}.
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Mourn \Mourn\ (m[=o]rn), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mourned}
   (m[=o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mourning}.] [AS. murnan; akin to
   OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. ma['u]rnan.]
   1. To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be
      sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or
      sadness.
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            Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for
            her.                                  --Gen. xxiii.
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   2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
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            We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
                                                  --Shak.
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            Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.
                                                  --Pope.
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Mourn
Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for
the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Gen. 23:2); Jacob for
Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel
for Aaron (Num. 20:29), for Moses (Deut. 34:8), and for Samuel
(1 Sam. 25:1); David for Abner (2 Sam. 3:31, 35); Mary and
Martha for Lazarus (John 11); devout men for Stephen (Acts 8:2),
etc.

  (2.) For calamities, Job (1:20, 21; 2:8); Israel (Ex. 33:4);
the Ninevites (Jonah 3:5); Israel, when defeated by Benjamin
(Judg. 20:26), etc.

  (3.) Penitential mourning, by the Israelites on the day of
atonement (Lev. 23:27; Acts 27:9); under Samuel's ministry (1
Sam. 7:6); predicted in Zechariah (Zech. 12:10, 11); in many of
the psalms (51, etc.).

  Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Gen. 35:8, marg.; Luke
7:38, etc.); (2) by loud lamentation (Ruth 1:9; 1 Sam. 6:19; 2
Sam. 3:31); (3) by the disfigurement of the person, as rending
the clothes (Gen. 37:29, 34; Matt. 26:65), wearing sackcloth
(Gen. 37:34; Ps. 35:13), sprinkling dust or ashes on the person
(2 Sam. 13:19; Jer. 6:26; Job 2:12), shaving the head and
plucking out the hair of the head or beard (Lev. 10:6; Job
1:20), neglect of the person or the removal of ornaments (Ex.
33:4; Deut. 21:12, 13; 2 Sam. 14:2; 19:24; Matt. 6:16, 17),
fasting (2 Sam. 1:12), covering the upper lip (Lev. 13:45; Micah
3:7), cutting the flesh (Jer. 16:6, 7), and sitting in silence
(Judg. 20:26; 2 Sam. 12:16; 13:31; Job 1:20).

  In the later times we find a class of mourners who could be
hired to give by their loud lamentation the external tokens of
sorrow (2 Chr. 35:25; Jer. 9:17; Matt. 9:23).

  The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was
seventy days (Gen. 50:3); for Aaron (Num. 20:29) and Moses
(Deut. 34:8) thirty days; and for Saul only seven days (1 Sam.
31:13). In 2 Sam. 3:31-35, we have a description of the great
mourning for the death of Abner.
    

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