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mourn

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mourn  \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}. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mourn 
  v  1:  fell  sadness;  "She  is  mourning  her  dead  child" 
  2:  observe  the  customs  of  mourning  after  the  death  of  a  loved 
  one 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Mourn 
  Frequent  references  are  found  in  Scripture  to  (1.)  Mourning  for 
  the  dead.  Abraham  mourned  for  Sarah  (Gen.  23:2);  Jacob  for 
  Joseph  (37:34,  35);  the  Egyptians  for  Jacob  (50:3-10);  Israel 
  for  Aaron  (Num.  20:29),  for  Moses  (Deut.  34:8),  and  for  Samuel 
  (1  Sam.  25:1);  David  for  Abner  (2  Sam.  3:31,  35);  Mary  and 
  Martha  for  Lazarus  (John  11);  devout  men  for  Stephen  (Acts  8:2), 
  etc 
 
  (2.)  For  calamities,  Job  (1:20,  21;  2:8);  Israel  (Ex.  33:4); 
  the  Ninevites  (Jonah  3:5);  Israel,  when  defeated  by  Benjamin 
  (Judg.  20:26),  etc 
 
  (3.)  Penitential  mourning,  by  the  Israelites  on  the  day  of 
  atonement  (Lev.  23:27;  Acts  27:9);  under  Samuel's  ministry  (1 
  Sam.  7:6);  predicted  in  Zechariah  (Zech.  12:10,  11);  in  many  of 
  the  psalms  (51,  etc.). 
 
  Mourning  was  expressed,  (1)  by  weeping  (Gen.  35:8,  marg.;  Luke 
  7:38,  etc.);  (2)  by  loud  lamentation  (Ruth  1:9;  1  Sam.  6:19;  2 
  Sam.  3:31);  (3)  by  the  disfigurement  of  the  person,  as  rending 
  the  clothes  (Gen.  37:29,  34;  Matt.  26:65),  wearing  sackcloth 
  (Gen.  37:34;  Ps  35:13),  sprinkling  dust  or  ashes  on  the  person 
  (2  Sam.  13:19;  Jer.  6:26;  Job  2:12),  shaving  the  head  and 
  plucking  out  the  hair  of  the  head  or  beard  (Lev.  10:6;  Job 
  1:20),  neglect  of  the  person  or  the  removal  of  ornaments  (Ex. 
  33:4;  Deut.  21:12,  13;  2  Sam.  14:2;  19:24;  Matt.  6:16,  17), 
  fasting  (2  Sam.  1:12),  covering  the  upper  lip  (Lev.  13:45;  Micah 
  3:7),  cutting  the  flesh  (Jer.  16:6,  7),  and  sitting  in  silence 
  (Judg.  20:26;  2  Sam.  12:16;  13:31;  Job  1:20). 
 
  In  the  later  times  we  find  a  class  of  mourners  who  could  be 
  hired  to  give  by  their  loud  lamentation  the  external  tokens  of 
  sorrow  (2  Chr.  35:25;  Jer.  9:17;  Matt.  9:23). 
 
  The  period  of  mourning  for  the  dead  varied.  For  Jacob  it  was 
  seventy  days  (Gen.  50:3);  for  Aaron  (Num.  20:29)  and  Moses 
  (Deut.  34:8)  thirty  days;  and  for  Saul  only  seven  days  (1  Sam. 
  31:13).  In  2  Sam.  3:31-35,  we  have  a  description  of  the  great 
  mourning  for  the  death  of  Abner.




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