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Meanings of mourner (mourners) in English
Portuguese
carpideira Spanish
plañidera Synonyms
Examples for "griever"
Examples for "griever"
1
Go up to the road to avoid the griever?
2
Our society congratulates itself on a "good funeral", but considers attending one a substitute for supporting the griever after it.
3
The Griever had come right through the house and was now leaving.
4
The Griever's spikes popped out; its body rolled toward Thomas and Alby.
5
Minho took off running in the direction where he'd seen the Griever.
1
Room was made for the sorrower, who was followed by two or three female friends.
2
His society became not only a relief, it grew almost a want, to that stern sorrower.
3
It was one thing to make light of a young man's sorrows in love, but another to do it when the sorrower was Xavier's age.
4
Sorrower for us, who hast also become as a stranger to us!-Nowwe know your anxious love for us.
5
At length I gained admission and gave my account, which was most meekly received by the most patient of sorrowers.
1
I am extreme annoyed and fluttered, yet would not be a vain lamenter neither.
2
'Tis not that I am a lamenter over that I have told you.
3
He belonged unmistakably to that forlorn orchestra to whose piping no one dances; he was one of the world's lamenters who induce no responsive weeping.
Usage of mourners in English
1
The chief mourners were in seclusion in the library of the Academy.
2
The mourners would point to the exit and ask him to leave.
3
At length the mourners reached the churchyard and gathered around the grave.
4
Local Fine Gael TD, Mr Gay Mitchell, was also among the mourners.
5
That the whole society follow his remains to the grave as mourners.
6
He stood in the chamber of death where the mourners were weeping.
7
After the burial, most of the mourners returned to the Nelsons' house.
8
Cameras pointed their eyes at the gun-carriage and the mourners behind it.
9
The mourners set fire to roadside bunkers and hoisted green Islamic flags.
10
A funeral was held on Monday, 8 October, with only four mourners.
11
The news has reached the city, and the mourners are coming out.
12
Before the mourners had finished their lamentations, the body of the house.
13
At his funeral yesterday near Tahrir Square, mourners were teargassed by police.
14
Again a funeral in the old house, again a crowd of mourners.
15
At the table, right, are sitting: the brown-clad mourners of Scene I.
16
Four mourners, having made a stretcher of cloaks, raised the fallen body.
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Mourners through the time
Mourners across language varieties
Ireland
Common
New Zealand
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common
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