different between mourn vs unmourning

English

Alternative forms

• morne (14th - 15th centuries)

Etymology

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnan?. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: môrn, IPA^(key): /m??n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: môn, IPA^(key): /m??n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: m?rn, IPA^(key): /mo(?)?n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /mo?n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: morne, mourne; morn (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

mourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

   • Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

2. (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
3. (intransitive) To wear mourning.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mourn (countable and uncountable, plural mourns)

1. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

See also

Anagrams

• Munro, munro

English

Etymology

un- +? mourning

Adjective

unmourning (not comparable)

1. Not mourning.
   • 1949, L. P. Hartley, The Boat

     But now they must go; the servants are waiting with the luggage, Armando in his blue-striped coat, Amalia in her unmourning but habitual black […]