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Definition of Mourners
1. mourner [n] - See also: mourner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mourners
Literary usage of Mourners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And all the body on the bier was veil'd With tresses, which the mourners from
their locks Had shorn and cast upon him ; at his head Stately Achilles moved, ..."
2. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"It was on this occasion that kinsfolk and friends assumed the garb of mourners.
Their faces and bodies were smeared with a mixture of greyish earth and ..."
3. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"These were formerly attended by laceration of the faces of the mourners, a custom
still preserved among some of the inhabitants of Dalmatia and Montenegro. ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And all the body on the bier was veil'd With tresses, which the mourners from
their locks Had shorn and cast upon him ; at his head Stately Achilles moved, ..."
5. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"It was on this occasion that kinsfolk and friends assumed the garb of mourners.
Their faces and bodies were smeared with a mixture of greyish earth and ..."
6. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"These were formerly attended by laceration of the faces of the mourners, a custom
still preserved among some of the inhabitants of Dalmatia and Montenegro. ..."
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