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Definition of Keener
1. n. A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.
Definition of Keener
1. Adjective. (comparative of keen) ¹
2. Noun. (dated) One who keens at a funeral. ¹
3. Noun. (UK Canada) Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Keener
1. one that keens [n -S] - See also: keens
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keener
Literary usage of Keener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"All the parties had knowledge that keener was to purchase from the plaintiff ...
The sale was consummated between keener and the plaintiff on February 24, ..."
2. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"How can this faculty be explained 1 Is it a consequence of the more practised
habits of perception and keener senses, common to all men in a savage state, ..."
3. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"keener. Hewlett. К: Т. Pathology, general and special. ;d ed. »$3.20. 'OS. ...
2d rev. éd. O. 428p. il. »$3. (Ap.) '08. keener. Patón, Lewis Bay les, ..."
4. Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices by Samuel Carter Hall (1842)
"OH SAY NOT 'TWERE A keener BLOW. OH say not 'twere a keener blow, To lose a child
of riper years, You cannot know a father's wo— You cannot dry a father's ..."
5. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"CHAPTER II ENTERING THE PROFESSION Competition in Actor's Profession No keener
than in Any Other—"Pull" of Little Value—The Road Company—The Evils of ..."
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