mournern.¹

Brit.

/ˈmɔːnə/, U.S.

/ˈmɔrnər/

Forms: late Middle English morener, late Middle English– mourner, 1500s moerner, 1500s moorner, 1500s mornar, 1500s mowrmarus (transmission error), 1500s mowrnar, 1600s morner, 1600s mournour, 1800s– murner (English regional); Scottish pre-1700 1700s– mourner, pre-1700 1700s– murner.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mourn v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mourn v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

1. A person who mourns, laments, or grieves; spec. one who mourns the death of a friend or relation; a person who attends a funeral out of respect or affection for the deceased. Also figurative. chief mourner n. (also principal mourner) the closest relative of the deceased present at a funeral. Cf. also close mourner n. at close adj. and adv. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner

mournera1425

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > lamenter(s)

sorrowfuleOE

mournera1425

lamenter1589

sorrower1613

deplorer1687

Jeremiah1781

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lamentation or expression of grief for death > [noun] > one who

mournera1425

keener1786

waker1808

the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > nearest relative

chief mournera1662

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. lvii. 18 Y ȝaf coumfortyngis to hym and to the moreneris [a1382 E.V. weileris; L. lugentibus] of hym.

c1525 Elegy Henry VIII's Fool in J. O. Halliwell Nugæ Poeticæ (1844) 45 Ye as chefe moerner yn your own folys hode.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. xii. 2 When..the mourners go aboute the stretes.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. ii. 48 I am no mourner for that newes.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxxii. sig. H4 Thine eies..Haue put on black, and louing mourners bee.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. i. 334 The men that are cheefe Mournours haue their faces Covered with blacke Sipres.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 133 The Funeral he attended in his own Person, as the principal Mourner.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 83 The Mourner Eugh, and Builder Oak were there.

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 177 The masters of the assembly-rooms followed as chief mourners.

1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 166 The sobs of the mourners.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 24 I have been since a solitary mourner.

1924 M. Webb Precious Bane i. iv. 32 Gideon, being chief mourner, had a tall hat with black streamers and black gloves and a twisted black stick with streamers on it.

1947 M. Lowry Under Volcano xi. 341 The mourners were chanting over the graves of their loved ones, playing guitars softly or praying.

1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn v. 109 The cortège, led by eleven-year-old Konrad as chief mourner, moved out of the narrow side street.

1999 Independent 24 June ii. 5/1 Leon Wieseltier..recited the mourner's kaddish in accordance with Jewish tradition.

2. A person employed or hired to attend funerals in mourning clothes, or to utter formal lamentations for the dead.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > hired or professional

weeper1412

saulie1621

blacka1625

mourner1631

wailer1647

dismal?1710

mute1741

keener1786

howler1844

moirologist1886

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others

mourner1631

catcher1652

monodist1751

pennill singer1784

folk-singer1898

moaner1927

bluesman1930

calypsonian1934

torch singer1934

lieder-singer1936

torcher1940

country singer1953

protest singer1966

ragga1997

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 15 Suborned counterfeit hired mourners.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxcviii. 168 A Woman that had Two Daughters, Bury'd one of them, and Mourners were Provided to Attend the Funeral.

1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. xl. 313 The Muscovites pay Mourners to shed Tears at the Interment of their Kindred.

1824 L. E. Landon Improvisatrice 169 The Bayadere: her part had been Only the hired mourner's part.

1886 Q. Rev. July 215 There may be found traces, too, of Lethe..in the death ballads sung by the hired mourners.

1898 Dict. National Biogr. LVII. 375/1 He divided 3l. 10s. among five men to follow the cart as mourners.

1927 C. G. Botha Social Life in Cape Colony 65 There was also another class of paid mourners called ‘tropsluiters’, who had to follow in pairs at the rear of the procession.

1989 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 89/2 Heavily cloaked and cowled professional mourners..were normally employed to follow the coffin in a funeral procession.

2001 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Electronic ed.) 12 Feb. 4 Some days Roger McClay must feel he is little more than a paid mourner.

3. U.S. At an evangelical revival meeting: a person who publicly repents of his or her sins, a penitent. Cf. mourner's bench n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing

penantc1330

repentantc1390

penitenta1425

penancera1500

repenter1543

penitentiary1563

shrift child1568

penitentionary1577

contritea1600

penitencerc1600

confessanta1603

shriveling1603

confitent1606

confessary1608

penitentiala1633

confessionaire1747

mourner1807

1807 J. Early Diary 11 June in Virginia Mag. (1925) 33 284 One shouter, four mourners came to be prayed for.

1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs x. 121 Having thus deposited his charge among the mourners, he started out, summarily to convert another soul!

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Mourners. Persons on the ‘anxious seat’..at ‘revival’ meetings are technically termed ‘mourners’; that is persons mourning for their sins.

1886 P. G. Ebbutt Emigrant Life 124 A number of people got very excited, and there was a lot of weeping and shouting when a mourner ‘found glory’.

1901 W. N. Harben Westerfelt 252 When they begin to call up mourners she commences to clap 'er hands an' shout.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §327.5 Mourner, a convert under conviction at revival meetings.

Compounds

mourner's line n. rare a line of people awaiting an unwelcome fate.

ΚΠ

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 10 Mar. 12 The rush of people to the tax department to swear off taxes has set in. Yesterday the ‘mourner's line’, which ordinarily contains 10 or 15 persons, extended out into the corridor.

mourner's seat n. rare = mourner's bench n.

ΚΠ

1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs x. 126 ‘And then,’ continued Simon, ‘I had to go yonder’—pointing to the mourner's seat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mourner
释义	mournern.¹ Brit. /ˈmɔːnə/, U.S. /ˈmɔrnər/ Forms: late Middle English morener, late Middle English– mourner, 1500s moerner, 1500s moorner, 1500s mornar, 1500s mowrmarus (transmission error), 1500s mowrnar, 1600s morner, 1600s mournour, 1800s– murner (English regional); Scottish pre-1700 1700s– mourner, pre-1700 1700s– murner. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mourn v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mourn v.¹ + -er suffix¹. 1. A person who mourns, laments, or grieves; spec. one who mourns the death of a friend or relation; a person who attends a funeral out of respect or affection for the deceased. Also figurative. chief mourner n. (also principal mourner) the closest relative of the deceased present at a funeral. Cf. also close mourner n. at close adj. and adv. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner mournera1425 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > lamenter(s) sorrowfuleOE mournera1425 lamenter1589 sorrower1613 deplorer1687 Jeremiah1781 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lamentation or expression of grief for death > [noun] > one who mournera1425 keener1786 waker1808 the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > nearest relative chief mournera1662 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. lvii. 18 Y ȝaf coumfortyngis to hym and to the moreneris [a1382 E.V. weileris; L. lugentibus] of hym. c1525 Elegy Henry VIII's Fool in J. O. Halliwell Nugæ Poeticæ (1844) 45 Ye as chefe moerner yn your own folys hode. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. xii. 2 When..the mourners go aboute the stretes. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. ii. 48 I am no mourner for that newes. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxxii. sig. H4 Thine eies..Haue put on black, and louing mourners bee. View more context for this quotation a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. i. 334 The men that are cheefe Mournours haue their faces Covered with blacke Sipres. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 133 The Funeral he attended in his own Person, as the principal Mourner. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 83 The Mourner Eugh, and Builder Oak were there. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 177 The masters of the assembly-rooms followed as chief mourners. 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 166 The sobs of the mourners. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 24 I have been since a solitary mourner. 1924 M. Webb Precious Bane i. iv. 32 Gideon, being chief mourner, had a tall hat with black streamers and black gloves and a twisted black stick with streamers on it. 1947 M. Lowry Under Volcano xi. 341 The mourners were chanting over the graves of their loved ones, playing guitars softly or praying. 1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn v. 109 The cortège, led by eleven-year-old Konrad as chief mourner, moved out of the narrow side street. 1999 Independent 24 June ii. 5/1 Leon Wieseltier..recited the mourner's kaddish in accordance with Jewish tradition. 2. A person employed or hired to attend funerals in mourning clothes, or to utter formal lamentations for the dead. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > hired or professional weeper1412 saulie1621 blacka1625 mourner1631 wailer1647 dismal?1710 mute1741 keener1786 howler1844 moirologist1886 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others mourner1631 catcher1652 monodist1751 pennill singer1784 folk-singer1898 moaner1927 bluesman1930 calypsonian1934 torch singer1934 lieder-singer1936 torcher1940 country singer1953 protest singer1966 ragga1997 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 15 Suborned counterfeit hired mourners. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxcviii. 168 A Woman that had Two Daughters, Bury'd one of them, and Mourners were Provided to Attend the Funeral. 1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. xl. 313 The Muscovites pay Mourners to shed Tears at the Interment of their Kindred. 1824 L. E. Landon Improvisatrice 169 The Bayadere: her part had been Only the hired mourner's part. 1886 Q. Rev. July 215 There may be found traces, too, of Lethe..in the death ballads sung by the hired mourners. 1898 Dict. National Biogr. LVII. 375/1 He divided 3l. 10s. among five men to follow the cart as mourners. 1927 C. G. Botha Social Life in Cape Colony 65 There was also another class of paid mourners called ‘tropsluiters’, who had to follow in pairs at the rear of the procession. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 89/2 Heavily cloaked and cowled professional mourners..were normally employed to follow the coffin in a funeral procession. 2001 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Electronic ed.) 12 Feb. 4 Some days Roger McClay must feel he is little more than a paid mourner. 3. U.S. At an evangelical revival meeting: a person who publicly repents of his or her sins, a penitent. Cf. mourner's bench n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing penantc1330 repentantc1390 penitenta1425 penancera1500 repenter1543 penitentiary1563 shrift child1568 penitentionary1577 contritea1600 penitencerc1600 confessanta1603 shriveling1603 confitent1606 confessary1608 penitentiala1633 confessionaire1747 mourner1807 1807 J. Early Diary 11 June in Virginia Mag. (1925) 33 284 One shouter, four mourners came to be prayed for. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs x. 121 Having thus deposited his charge among the mourners, he started out, summarily to convert another soul! 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Mourners. Persons on the ‘anxious seat’..at ‘revival’ meetings are technically termed ‘mourners’; that is persons mourning for their sins. 1886 P. G. Ebbutt Emigrant Life 124 A number of people got very excited, and there was a lot of weeping and shouting when a mourner ‘found glory’. 1901 W. N. Harben Westerfelt 252 When they begin to call up mourners she commences to clap 'er hands an' shout. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §327.5 Mourner, a convert under conviction at revival meetings. Compounds mourner's line n. rare a line of people awaiting an unwelcome fate. ΚΠ 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 10 Mar. 12 The rush of people to the tax department to swear off taxes has set in. Yesterday the ‘mourner's line’, which ordinarily contains 10 or 15 persons, extended out into the corridor. mourner's seat n. rare = mourner's bench n. ΚΠ 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs x. 126 ‘And then,’ continued Simon, ‘I had to go yonder’—pointing to the mourner's seat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mournern.² Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mourn v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: Apparently < mourn v.² + -er suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. Perhaps: a person who is glum or sulky. Cf. mourn v.² ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > swollen glands > person mournera1640 a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bb2^v/2 Hee's chin'd, he's chin'd good man, he is a mourner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹a1425n.²a1640
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Compounds

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