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▪ I. mourner1|ˈmɔənə(r)|
Also 4–5 morener, 6 moerner, 7 mournour, morner.
[f. mourn v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One who mourns, laments, or grieves; spec. one who mourns the death of a friend or relation; one who attends a funeral out of respect or affection for the deceased.
chief (or † principal) mourner: the nearest relative who is present at a funeral. † close mourner: a near relative of the deceased.
1388Wyclif Isa. lvii. 18, Y ȝaf coumfortyngis to hym, and to the moreneris of hym. c1525Elegy Hen. VIII's Fool in Halliw. Nugæ Poet. 45 Ye as chefe moerner yn your own folys hode. 1535Coverdale Eccl. xii. 2 When..the mourners go aboute the stretes. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. ii. 51, I am no mourner for that newes. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. (1903) 334 The men that are cheefe Mournours haue their faces Covered with blacke Sipres. a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 133 The Funeral he attended in his own Person, as the principal Mourner. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 20/1 These kind of hoods..are to this day worn by close Mourners at the Solemnities of great Funerals. 1762Goldsm. Nash 177 The masters of the assembly-room followed as chief mourners. 1820Shelley Sensit. Pl. iii. 8 The sobs of the mourners. 1870Dickens E. Drood iv, I have been since a solitary mourner.
fig.c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxxxii, Thine eies..Haue put on black, and louing mourners bee.
b. One employed or hired to attend funerals in a habit of mourning, or to utter wailing cries or songs of lamentation for the dead.
1692R. L'Estrange Fables cxcviii. 168 A Woman that had Two Daughters, Bury'd one of them, and Mourners were Provided to Attend the Funeral. 1741tr. D' Argen's Chinese Lett. xl. 313 The Muscovites pay Mourners to shed Tears at the Interment of their Kindred.
¶c. quasi-adj. (cf. Chaucer Parl. Foules 180).
1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 961 The Mourner Eugh, and Builder Oak were there.
d. U.S. (See quot. 1859.)
1834F. Lieber Lett. to Gent. in Germany xvi. 312 These tents..are divided lengthwise by a bench about a foot high, and called the mourners' bench. 1845J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs x. 121 Having thus deposited his charge among the mourners, he started out, summarily to convert another soul! Ibid. 126 ‘And then,’ continued Simon, ‘I had to go yonder’—pointing to the mourner's seat. 1857P. Cartwright Autobiogr. xxvi. 403 You must go to the Methodist's despised mourner's bench. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Mourners. Persons on the ‘anxious seat’..at ‘revival’ meetings are technically termed ‘mourners’; that is persons mourning for their sins. 1885‘Mark Twain’ in Century Mag. Feb. 549/2 Folks got up..and worked their way..to the mourners' bench, with the tears running down their faces. 1888[see anxious a. 2]. 1891Harper's Mag. Jan. 214/2 Everybody else war either convicted o' sin, an' at the mourner's bench [etc.]. 1904Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer 27 July 4 In the city police court a motley crowd of prisoners filled the mourners' benches. 1972News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 30 Dec. 4/3 The August meeting, the mourner's bench and the amen corner have gone out with stewards who yelled out ‘amen’ during the sermon.
2. Indian mourner: the sad-tree.
1890in Century Dict.
▪ II. † ˈmourner2 Obs. rare—1.
[f. mourn v.2 + -er1.]
One who has the ‘mourning of the chine’. In quot. transf.
a1625Fletcher & Mass. Cust. Country iii. iii, Hee's chin'd, he's chin'd good man; he is a mourner. |