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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 943 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to See also:pine away; by some referred to See also:root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to See also:die)  , the expression of grief or sorrow particularly for the dead; more specifically the outward or conventional signs of such grief . The public See also:exhibition of this grief for the dead has taken various forms among different races and in different ages, from shaving of the See also:head, or allowing the See also:beard and See also:hair to grow, from disfiguring the See also:face and uttering loud wailing cries, to the wearing of clothes of a particular See also:colour, now among Western races usually See also:black, and to the purely conventional See also:custom of using black-edged See also:note-See also:paper, See also:cards, &c .

End of Article: MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)
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