noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mourning for the death of your husband used to last up to a year.
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Friday was declared an international day of mourning for the victims.
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The Kaddish is a prayer of mourning .
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The widow wore mourning .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If so, it would surely only be after a period of mourning .
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Nevertheless, once the period of court mourning was over, Così was revived with a reasonable degree of success.
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No use mourning on an empty stomach.
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The much smaller amount of work on older women represents them as in mourning for the same psychological characteristics.
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There has been so much mourning to do.
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We're all supposed to be in mourning .