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Mourner

//ˈmɔɹnɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.

    "Disuniter of all affection—awful seal to life's nothingness—warning and witness of power and judgment—Death has always enow of terror and sorrow, even when there are many to comfort the mourner, when the path has been smoothed for the sufferer, and life offers all its best and brightest to soothe the survivor; […]"

  2. 2
    a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.

Etymology

From Middle English mourner, mornere, equivalent to mourn + -er.

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