mourn
verb (used without object)
to feel or express sorrow or grief.
unmourned
-
a word derived from
mourn.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Máire recounts the monotony of the work, the suffocating silence imposed on the “forgotten girls,” and the unmourned death of a friend who dropped “dead in the steam.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
He would be just like his father, superfluous, unloved, and eventually unmourned, while his wife flourished without him, like a plant repotted.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2023
I urge you to think carefully before making the leap into such an unmourned past.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2022
And how in other cases, such as donkeys in Morocco's medinas, working animals are seen as machines and unmourned when, after years of devoted service, they die.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 31, 2021
One shade came first—Elpenor, of our company, who lay unburied still on the wide earth as we had left him—dead in Kirke’s hall, untouched, unmourned, when other cares compelled us.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
