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Definition of Mourned
1. mourn [v] - See also: mourn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mourned
Literary usage of Mourned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"I mourned for him when he wrote the Creole letter which surprised Ashburton,
Briton that he was. I mourned when he spoke the speech of the seventh of March. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"Her tragic fate appealed strongly to the sympathies of her people, who mourned
with her through every rank. ' They cannot tell what I have lost,' she said ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Hhe mourned whan she knew him gone, Full long she sought or she him found aven
VV han he went to death his crosse ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"When the clamour of the soldiers invested the reluctant victims with the ensigns
of sovereign authority, they sometimes mourned in secret their approaching ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"The diocese, founded in 1901, has mourned the deaths of several of the clergy
who took part in building it up; Rev. ..."
6. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"I mourned for him when he wrote the Creole letter which surprised Ashburton,
Briton that he was. I mourned when he spoke the speech of the seventh of March. ..."
7. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"Her tragic fate appealed strongly to the sympathies of her people, who mourned
with her through every rank. ' They cannot tell what I have lost,' she said ..."
8. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Hhe mourned whan she knew him gone, Full long she sought or she him found aven
VV han he went to death his crosse ..."
9. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"When the clamour of the soldiers invested the reluctant victims with the ensigns
of sovereign authority, they sometimes mourned in secret their approaching ..."
10. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"The diocese, founded in 1901, has mourned the deaths of several of the clergy
who took part in building it up; Rev. ..."
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