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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.

Mourn, v. t. 1. To
grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.

As if he mourned his rival's ill
success.

Addison.

And looking over the hills, I mourn

The darling who shall not return.

Emerson.

2. To utter in a mournful manner or
voice.

The lovelorn nightingale

Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

Milton.

Syn. -- See Deplore.

Mourne (mōrn), n.

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