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mourner
/ ˈmɔːnə /
noun
- a person who mourns, esp at a funeral
- (at US revivalist meetings) a person who repents publicly
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By 1915, mourning attire had begun to draw more attention to the mourner than to the deceased, drawing critics to the practice.
Grief is isolating, dividing the mourner from anyone who has yet to endure grief.
Two church members stood outside the Church, embracing each mourner as they walked to the vigil.
Another mourner said he was thankful he has a Prius that can get as many as 50 miles a gallon.
But intangibles also count when a president, particularly one long viewed as aloof, has to do double duty as the mourner-in-chief.
Birch supported the grave and collected manner that was thought becoming in a male mourner.
It took the bully six months to get over it, and he went to the mourner's bench himself at the next revival.
So we made him chief mourner instead, along with Flo—the more by token that he's the only citizen with a black coat to his back.
She rises above herself, no longer the despised and desponding mourner, but the accepted and the triumphant suppliant.
Héloïse survived him twenty years,--a priestess of God, a mourner at the tomb of Abélard.
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