All 3 Uses of
bereaved
in
As I Lay Dying
- I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement.†
Chpt 11 *
- It is as though upon a face carved by a savage caricaturist a monstrous "burlesque of all bereavement flowed.†
Chpt 17
- I entered the house of bereavement, the lowly dwelling where another erring mortal lay while her soul faced the awful and irrevocable judgment, peace to her ashes.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(bereaved) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved