mourn
IPA: mˈɔrn
noun
- (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
- A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
- (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- (intransitive) To wear mourning.
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Examples of "mourn" in Sentences
- To mourn is to express regret and he regrets nothing.
- So, OK, we don't necessarily need to "mourn" our possessions.
- WHEREAS, the people of Wisconsin mourn the death of Gunnery Sergeant Richard W. Fischer; and
- Hilary: Those that mourn, that is, not loss of kindred, affronts, or losses, but who weep for past sins.
- "Yea," is thy word to me with the tongue: say it to me with thy mind, and with the word mourn heavily, that thou mayest have continual cheerfulness.
- (Hebrew: mitsrssyim -- "Egypt") mourn, that is an indication in what high esteem he was held, both as a prince in his own right as well as the father of Joseph.
- To mourn is to (1) feel or express grief or sorrow; (2) to show the customarysigns of grief for a death, to wear mourning clothes; (3) to murmur mournfully; (1) to feel or express grief or sorrow for.
- She broke into a relieved smile to discover I was a virtuous widow and not a disreputable single mother, as I was, and passed the news around, so that the rest of the vacation allowed me to "mourn" while basking in benevolent glances.
- What he had before said he would do (ch.viii. 8) is here repeated, that he would make the land melt and tremble, and all that dwell therein mourn, that the judgment should rise up wholly like a flood, and the country should be drowned, and laid under water, as by the flood of Egypt, v. 5.
- What I do mourn is what we lose when by official policy or official neglect we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget that best sense of ourselves, that which is our greatest strength-that we are different and better than our enemies, that we fight for an idea, not a tribe, not a land, not a king, not a twisted interpretation of an ancient religion, but for an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights.
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