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sorrower

noun as in mourner

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Example Sentences

The very breezes grieve for her, A lonely grief; For her each tree is sorrower, Each blade and leaf.

And he's the one that sits all night to watch beside the dead, And sends the worn-out sorrowers and broken hearts to bed.

Room was made for the sorrower, who was followed by two or three female friends.

At length I gained admission and gave my account, which was most meekly received by the most patient of sorrowers.

Grief is a matter of relativity; the sorrow should be estimated by its proportion to the sorrower; a gash is as painful to one as an amputation to another. 

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

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