What's the difference between griever and mourner?

Griever


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, grieves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Maze Runner casts two-dozen teenage boys into a vast glade enclosed by a vaster labyrinth guarded by bio-mechanical predators called Grievers.

Mourner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
  • (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Witnesses said that riot police and crowds of protesters had been waiting for the mourners as the service ended.
  • (2) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
  • (3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
  • (4) In the days that followed, thousands of flowers carpeted Martin Place, left by mourners and well-wishers.
  • (5) Last summer, 3,000 mourners attended the funeral of Tama the cat , whose 2007 appointment as honorary stationmaster at a railway station in western Japan was credited with saving the line from financial ruin.
  • (6) Thousands of Palestinian mourners carried the burned body of 17-year Mohammed Abu Khdeir through the streets of an East Jerusalem suburb on Friday.
  • (7) The roads, which construction workers began after his first serious bout of ill health, will carry mourners to Mandela's grave site.
  • (8) One showed a Protestant attack on mourners at a Catholic funeral.
  • (9) The suspicions of most of those mourners – that a police officer killed Peach – were all but confirmed in yesterday's report.
  • (10) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
  • (11) Among the mourners were General Aslam Beg, a former army chief, and General Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
  • (12) A suspect was charged on Monday in the fatal shootings of an imam and another Muslim man , as hundreds of mourners gathered in Queens, New York, to remember the victims and call for justice.
  • (13) Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the funeral of Marine Richard Hollington, who became the 300th British servicemen to die in Afghanistan after he was injured in a blast in Sangin on 12 June.
  • (14) Mourners pay tribute to the victim at a makeshift shrine in Delhi.
  • (15) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
  • (16) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
  • (17) This last featured one of his most striking stage images: the funeral on an isolated cliff edge, the black-clad mourners standing beside a piano.
  • (18) Eight people died at the funeral when unidentified gunmen opened fire on mourners.
  • (19) Mourners were asked to make a donation to Amnesty International, the organisation to which Reynolds used to send his fees when he wrote occasional pieces for the Guardian.
  • (20) Thousands of mourners paid their final respects Friday to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in the US almost a week ago for reasons that authorities say may never become clear.

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