Mourner

Definitions

1. Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
2. Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.

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Examples

“Disuniter of all affection—awful seal to life's nothingness—warning and witness of power and judgment—Death has always enow of terror and sorrow, even when there are many to comfort the mourner, when the path has been smoothed for the sufferer, and life offers all its best and brightest to soothe the survivor; […]”

“I stood close⟳ to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.”

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