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mourned


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mourn  \Mourn\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Mourned};  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. 
 
  Abraham  came  to  mourn  for  Sarah,  and  to  weep  for 
  her  --Gen.  xxiii. 
  2. 
 
  2.  To  wear  the  customary  garb  of  a  mourner. 
 
  We  mourn  in  black;  why  mourn  we  not  in  blood? 
  --Shak. 
 
  Grieve  for  an  hour,  perhaps,  then  mourn  a  year. 
  --Pope. 




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