Definition of "mourn"

mourn

/moɹn/

verb
third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned
1. (transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
  Quotations
  We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
  Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 23:2
  Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.
  2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Nightmare
2. (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
3. (intransitive) To wear mourning.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural mourns
1. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
  Quotations
  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(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II
2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

Definition of "mourn"

mourn

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