Definition of Mournfullest

1. mournful [adj] - See also: mournful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mournfullest

mourite
mourn
mourne
mourned
mourner
mourner's seat
mourners
mourners' bench
mournes
mournest
mourneth
mournful
mournful widow
mournfull
mournfuller
mournfullest (current term)
mournfully
mournfulness
mournfulnesses
mourning
mourning(a)
mourning band
mourning cloak
mourning cloaks
mourning dove
mourning doves
mourning ring
mourningly
mournings

Literary usage of Mournfullest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"So this was the mournfullest day that in my life I had scene, or the Church of England herselfe since the Reformation ; to the ..."

2. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"... it is no great marvel, although the mournfullest of pities, that the instinctive lover of the Beautiful was fain to turn away his eyes. ..."

3. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"being a man of the mournfullest make, I was scared a little, that's all. Oftentimes if you could see how terrible down I get in my mind, 'twould make 'ee ..."

4. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"... where the ancient patches of snow lay against the very path, where the winds blew bitterest and the general aspect was mournfullest and dreariest, ..."

5. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1904)
"Whereat the mournfullest of smiles Creased his dry skin with many a fold. " You must be very old, Sir Giles," I said; he said: " Yea, very old : " " They ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... on paine of imprisonment or exile, So this was ye mournfullest day that in my life I had seene, or ye Church of England herselfe, since ye Reformation. ..."

7. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"So this was the mournfullest day that in my life I had scene, or the Church of England herselfe since the Reformation ; to the ..."

8. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"... it is no great marvel, although the mournfullest of pities, that the instinctive lover of the Beautiful was fain to turn away his eyes. ..."

9. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"being a man of the mournfullest make, I was scared a little, that's all. Oftentimes if you could see how terrible down I get in my mind, 'twould make 'ee ..."

10. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"... where the ancient patches of snow lay against the very path, where the winds blew bitterest and the general aspect was mournfullest and dreariest, ..."

11. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1904)
"Whereat the mournfullest of smiles Creased his dry skin with many a fold. " You must be very old, Sir Giles," I said; he said: " Yea, very old : " " They ..."

12. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... on paine of imprisonment or exile, So this was ye mournfullest day that in my life I had seene, or ye Church of England herselfe, since ye Reformation. ..."

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