Mourn

//mɔɹn//

Definitions

1
To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
For two months, she mourned her father's passing.
Similar
grieve lament weep
2
To utter in a sorrowful manner.
3
To wear mourning.

1
Sorrow, grief.
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

Word Origin

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

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