mourner
Noun
Meaning
One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.
A guest mourner does not wail as though his heart is broken.
The most beautiful laughter comes from the mouth of a mourner.