bereavement
IPA: bɝˈivmʌnt
noun
- The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
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Examples of "bereavement" in Sentences
- What happened was that they removed from the manual something called the bereavement exclusion.
- In comfortable lives a bereavement is a contrast; in the lives of the wretched it is but one more in the assailing army of woes.
- And they may be experiencing something that we call complicated bereavement, which is a wish to undo the loss and to undo the grief.
- Just as grief serves a purpose in bereavement, so the belief that they have been betrayed helps the United States to get over a defeat.
- The inhabitants of Corfu obviously believed that the best part of a bereavement was the funeral, for each seemed more ornate than the last.
- "He Who Shapes", drawing as it does on Zelazny's own experience of car accidents and bereavement, is a good ending point for this first selection.
- It will help parents in the uncertain and difficult problem of rearing their children in a way that will make them and keep them a joy in the home, rather than a heartache, a heart break, and the saddest kind of a bereavement, which is too often the case.
- George S. Hillard, a most faithful and serviceable friend, -- not only to Hawthorne during his life, but afterwards as a trustee for his family, and equally kind and helpful to them in their bereavement, which is more than could be said of all his friends, -- especially of
- Providence may, indeed, sunder forever those dearest to each other, and the stricken soul accepts the blow as the righteous discipline of a Higher Power; but when the bereavement is the arbitrary dictate of human will, there are no such consolations to sanctify grief and assuage agony.
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