0 past simple and past participle of mourn
1 to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death:
Parents were heartbroken at the death of a child, but mourned an older child more than a young infant.
In a healthy subject, the loss is introjected - mourned and grieved for, accepted as a part of reality, and worked through.
The gaps are mourned as lacunae - deaths - but the acknowledgement of loss becomes in itself cause for quiet rejoicing.
This recent definition sums up in particular the attitudes of early-to late-nineteenth-century critics and afficionados who mourned the passing of more than individual singers.
No one mourned the dead, or prayed for them or spoke to them.
His death will be mourned throughout the international music education community.
While the country mourned, medical scientists vowed that this would not happen again.
Not a single voice expressed a desire to reverse the legislation or mourned the loss of employers' primary responsibility for pensions.
