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Webster 1913 Edition

Bemourn

Be-mourn′

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Verb.
T.
To mourn over.
Wyclif.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bemourn

BEMOURN

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Verb.
T.
To weep or mourn over. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

bemourn

bemourn

English

Verb

bemourn ‎(third-person singular simple present bemourns, present participle bemourning, simple past and past participle bemourned)

  1. (transitive, rare) To weep or mourn over.
    • 1974, Douglas L. Oliver, Ancient Tahitian Society:
      From the neighbouring settlements and valleys an immense concourse of people collected to bemourn the death of the arii, the Chiefly ladies bleeding themselves more as a matter of form than from grief or real sentiment, [...]

Etymology

From Middle English bemornen, from Old English bemurnan ‎(“to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for”), equivalent to be- ‎(“over, about”) +‎ mourn. Cognate with Old Saxon bemornian ‎(“to bemourn”).

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