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mourn verb.
[Old English murnan corresp. to Old Saxon mornan, mornian, Old High German mornen be anxious, Old Norse morna pine away, Gothic maurnan be anxious.]
I. verb intrans.
Feel or show grief or deep regret; lament a misfortune etc. Freq. foll. by for, over. OE.
W. Congreve Some Here are, who seem to mourn at our Success! Lytton Let us not waste them in mourning over blighted hopes.
b. spec. Feel or show grief for a dead person or a person's death (freq. foll. by for); show the conventional signs of grief for a period after a person's death, esp. by wearing mourning garments. ME.
c. Utter lamentations to. rare. M16.
T. Gray I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear.
d. Of an animal: pine. obsolete exc. Scot. L16.
Yearn for, after, to do; care for. OE-LME.
(Of a dove) make its natural low murmuring sound (literary); (of a person, esp. an infant) make a plaintive sound similar to this, moan, (long dial.). E16.
Shelley The dove mourned in the pine, Sad prophetess of sorrows not her own.
II. verb trans.
Feel or show grief or deep regret for (a dead person, a person's death, a misfortune, etc.). LME.
A. N. Wilson Both mourned a rural..England which was vanishing forever. V. S. Naipaul The Parray woman lived on..mourning her pundit son. B. Gilroy They buried her...She had many friends to mourn her.
Utter in a mournful manner. E17.
J. Steinbeck 'Where is our happiness gone?' Pablo mourned.