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mourner

noun as in lamenter

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On a recent day in mid-September, mourners huddled outside a Johannesburg, South Africa, cathedral in anticipation of a private send-off.

The men's coffins were draped in Hezbollah's flag while mourners threw petals and chanted "death to Israel, death to America".

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Hundreds of mourners gathered for a vigil in the city on Sunday morning, lighting candles for the victim, local media reported.

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Around a dozen mourners dressed in black hold portraits of Thailand's late Queen Sirikit outside the Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok, where she had been receiving medical treatment.

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The burial concluded days of memorials that at times led to chaos, with at least five mourners dying at other events and dozens injured at a public viewing on Saturday.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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