wailern.
/ˈweɪlə/, U.S. /ˈweɪlər/ One who wails; spec. a professional mourner.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > hired or professional
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wailer1647
dismal?1710
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howler1844
moirologist1886
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > wailing > wailer
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1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A wailer or bewailer, een kermer.
1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. xi. 267 Those dangers from which the poor blushing wailers of my sex shrink.
1851 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes xii. 54 Before us a funeral procession was moving to the tombs, and the shrill melancholy cry of the wailers rang fitfully.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xix. 524 A funeral with a train of wailers goes out presently towards the burial-ground.
1915 19th Cent. Nov. 1147 These ‘howls’ have been practised from childhood; they are led in chorus by a professional ‘wailer’.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > wailing > wailer > female
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a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. ix. 17 Clepe ȝe wymmen that weilen [v.r. weileressis].
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