Crossword-Solution: MOURNER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mourner | n. | One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. |
| Mourner | n. | One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “MOURNER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A hired one is called a moirologist | 1 answer |
| Attendant at a wake. | 1 answer |
| Funeral attendee | 1 answer |
| Person following the coffin | 1 answer |
| person attending a funeral | 1 answer |
| Elegist | 2 answers |
| Niobe was one | 2 answers |
| One grieving. | 3 answers |
| Keener. | 5 answers |
| Weeper | 6 answers |
| A PERSON WHO IS FEELING GRIEF | 11 answers |
| widow | 20 answers |
| matriarch | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOURNER (5)
She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach.
The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
From two directions two long files of infantry came plowing through the pack and press in silence; there was a low, crisp order and the crowd vanished, the square save the sidewalks was empty, the private mourner was gone.
Get a top of that there seat, and look at the crowd.” His son obeyed, and the crowd approached; they were bawling and hissing round a dingy hearse and dingy mourning coach, in which mourning coach there was only one mourner, dressed in the dingy trappings that were considered essential to the dignity of the position.
Sometimes a gleam of hope would play about her heart when she thought of her parents--“They cannot surely,” she would say, “refuse to forgive me; or should they deny their pardon to me, they win not hate my innocent infant on account of its mother's errors.” How often did the poor mourner wish for the consoling presence of the benevolent Mrs.
Quotes with MOURNER (3)
I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. "You mean the Mourner's Kaddish?" he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. "No," I replied. "I mean the prayers said when a person is actually dying." "Oh," he replied. "I don't know. I've never seen anyone die." He had been a congregational rabbi for almost twenty years. "I only get called when it's time to do the funeral," he explained. Clearly there is much to lea…
I have lived in the shadow of loss — the kind of loss that can paralyze you forever. I have grieved like a professional mourner — in every waking moment, draining every ounce of my life force. I died — without leaving my body. But I came back, and now it’s your turn. I have learned to remember my past — without living in it. I am strong, electric, and alive, because I chose to dance, to laugh, to love, and tolive again. I have learned that you can’t re-create the life you onc…
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).