What is "mourned"

Usage examples of "mourned".

Again, in the Arunta tribe mourners smear themselves with white pipeclay, and the motive for this custom is said to be to render themselves more conspicuous, so that the ghost may see and be satisfied that he is being properly mourned for.

On the other hand they are decidedly afraid of hurting the feelings of any strong man who might be capable of doing them some mischief unless he saw that he was properly mourned for.

Both in China and Japan the departed spirit is invested with the power of revisiting the earth, and, in a visible form, tormenting its enemies and haunting those places where the perishable part of it mourned and suffered.

Dying so young, mourned by her husband apparently to the point of madness.

However much you may be mourned, your widow will like to have her weeds neatly made--the cook will send or come up to ask about dinner--the survivor will soon bear to look at your picture over the mantelpiece, which will presently be deposed from the place of honour, to make way for the portrait of the son who reigns.

Miss Black, I have mourned that sin from the day that I was hurried into it until this.

Scant comfort to Caesar and Aurelia, who mourned her sadly changed circumstances.

Not if the bloodied bodies of his German wife and the son he had deliberately excluded from a Roman education had been laid at his feet would he have mourned as he mourned for his mother, Maria.

She mourned the hard fate of mistresses--unfortunate creatures that could not do without servants.

She searched in his diary to find his will, and often she mourned that he had written on it so few things she could obey.

I have observed, by the way, that in general men are the less mourned by their families in proportion as they are the more mourned by the community.

Louis Loeb, the American artist, whose early death in the summer of 1909 is widely mourned, visited the spot and made drawings for me of the exterior and interior of the church as it looked then.