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Webster 1913 Edition

Mourn

Mourn

(mōrn)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Mourned
(mōrnd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Mourning
.]
[AS.
murnan
; akin to OS.
mornian
, OHG.
mornen
, Goth.
maúrnan
.]
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?
Shakespeare
Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then
mourn
a year.
Pope.

Mourn

,
Verb.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mourn

MOURN

,
Verb.
I.
[L. maereo.]
1.
To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful. Mourning may be expressed by weeping or audible sounds, or by sobs, sighs or inward silent grief.
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep. Gen.23.
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matt.5.
2.
To wear the customary habit of sorrow.
We mourn in black.
Grieve for an hour perhaps, then mourn a year.

MOURN

,
Verb.
T.
To grieve for; to lament. But there is an ellipsis of for, the verb not being transitive. When we say, we mourn a friend or a child, the real sense and complete phrase is, we mourn for a friend, or mourn for the loss of a friend. 'He mourn'd his rival's ill success,' that is,he mourned for his rival's ill success.
1.
To utter in a sorrowful manner.
The love lorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

Definition 2024

mourn

mourn

English

Alternative forms

  • morne (14th - 15th centuries)

Verb

mourn ‎(third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)

  1. To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
    • Bible, Genesis xxiii. 2
      Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
    • Shakespeare
      We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mourn ‎(plural mourns)

  1. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vij, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
      Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle
  2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

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Etymology

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne ‎(“gloomy”).

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