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Synonyms for mourner
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : mawr-ner, mohr- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɔr nər, ˈmoʊr- |
Définition of mourner
Origin :- late 14c., agent noun from mourn (v.).
- noun lamenter
- Behind the coach, the mourner, for whom the coach was intended, walking in the dust.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- No doubt he made his living as mourner at funerals to which no other mourners came.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- Did ever mourner plead with thee, And thou refuse that mourner's plea?
- Extract from : « The Liberty Minstrel » by George W. Clark
- As she screamed she struck down at the mourner with her clenched fist.
- Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland
- But what Gilgamesh is not permitted to hear, the mourner is told.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
- The question uppermost in the mind of the mourner is "Will the dead return?"
- Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
- The name is from the Egyptian, as applied to a mourner or a singer at a funeral.
- Extract from : « Textiles » by William H. Dooley
- Even if he knew him well, his face changed when he saw a mourner.
- Extract from : « The Sayings Of Confucius » by Confucius
- I am going to find a mourner,' answered the bear, and told his story.
- Extract from : « The Crimson Fairy Book » by Various
- I wanted to tell him the day on which I must say the mourner's prayer for him, but I had forgotten it.
- Extract from : « Jewish Children » by Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
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