What's the difference between grieving and mourning?

Grieving


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grieve
  • (a.) Sad; sorrowful; causing grief.
  • (n.) The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
  • (2) This study was undertaken at Yonsei University Medical Center to identify the crisis responses and nursing problems of patients who had been diagnosed with cancer, and changing patterns of grieving over time periods, and to analyse the effectiveness of follow up care through home visiting nursing.
  • (3) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
  • (4) Grieve said the correspondence contains the prince’s “most deeply held personal views and beliefs” and disclosure might undermine his “position of political neutrality”.
  • (5) "We are providing consular support to his family at this tragic time, and we ask that the media respect the privacy of those grieving."
  • (6) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
  • (7) Grieve said: "It is quite clear, and has been clear for some time in a number of different spheres, that the enforceability of court orders and injunctions when the internet exists – into which information can be rapidly posted – does present a challenge.
  • (8) A concept for counseling families reaching from information, support during the process of grieving about loss of the elder's capacities up to psychotherapeutically oriented help for family members is briefly described.
  • (9) Gordon Brown today said he felt for the grieving mother who criticised him over a letter of condolence he sent after her son died in Afghanistan.
  • (10) This paper focuses on the choice of a sexual partner and pregnancy issues as symptoms of reworking established conflicts around self-valuation and abandonment by sibling and grieving parents.
  • (11) Backed by the cabinet, Grieve argued that disclosing the letters could create constitutional problems as the public could come to think that the prince had disagreed with government policies.
  • (12) In a gesture of astonishing openness, Giulio Regeni’s grieving friends and relatives handed over their phones and laptops to the Italian police.
  • (13) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
  • (14) In a separate development, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has reportedly been asked by another judge to consider a criminal prosecution against a journalist who allegedly used Twitter to name a different footballer in breach of a privacy injunction.
  • (15) Grieving families should not have to campaign for years to get to the truth In my view, the IPCC previously hired far too many ex-police officers, compromising its independence.
  • (16) Nurses who are aware of the needs of grieving persons can help to facilitate the process, cushion the trauma of loss, and set the basis for a healthy grieving process.
  • (17) And when the grieving is done, that’s our purpose.
  • (18) Grieve, with the backing of the cabinet, has blocked the publication of the letters on the grounds that the public could read the letters and come to believe that the prince had disagreed with the policy of the last Labour government.
  • (19) In his attempt to justify the unjustifiable, Mr Grieve has clutched at a fragile constitutional doctrine and adopted a deeply dubious legal course.
  • (20) We grieve for all, but particularly for the 40 victims who called Australia home, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.

Mourning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mourn
  • (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
  • (n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.
  • (a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
  • (a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
  • (3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
  • (4) Coping with dying patients and mourning are also basic family tasks.
  • (5) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
  • (6) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
  • (7) A model of transition that accounts for individual differences is used to discuss the potential interaction among variables associated with the mourning process.
  • (8) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
  • (9) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
  • (10) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
  • (11) Despite the findings of this study, it was suggested that future dove management strategies consider the possibility of disease outbreaks involving white-winged doves and susceptible populations of mourning doves.
  • (12) The mourning period has caused controversy – while many laud him for his contributions to building Singapore into a wealthy city state, others have criticised his rule as one where the media was controlled and dissent was crushed.
  • (13) The Afghan government has declared three days of national mourning.
  • (14) If the internet allows us all to participate in collective mourning , then it should also demand that we do so more creatively.
  • (15) It was the third day of mourning for a young man named Issam.
  • (16) In order to escape from guilt he retreated once more to the protection of the organization and it is this which prevented him mourning his lost objects.
  • (17) As a sport, we mourn for Kirsty and remember her great contribution to swimming and the Loxton community.” Boden was a keen traveller and said she was “just your average dreamer, with a full-time job and a constant longing to go where I haven’t been”.
  • (18) Finally, Germany also mourned the death of four people in a car accident in Hamburg.
  • (19) 9.51pm BST And now, we prepare for retribution: David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) No Senator who heeledtoday on the NRA's command should have the gall to issue mournful statements the next time gun violence strikes.
  • (20) Last month saw impassioned protests from immigrant representatives after the mayor refused to declare an official day of mourning for three Chinese drowned in floods.

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