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Weeper

noun
1.
A person who weeps.  Synonym: crier.
2.
A hired mourner.





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"Weeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... better to sit at home than not to play at ANYTHING," murmured Lubotshka, with tears in her eyes. She was a great weeper. ...
— Childhood • Leo Tolstoy
... The weeper started violently, dropped her bandaged hands and stared in frightened wonder at the child before her, but she made no reply, and again Peace demanded, "What seems ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown
... one, To think, by favor of his wit How well a dentist had been bit By one old stump, and that a loose one! The thing was worth a laugh, but mirth Is still the frailest thing on earth: Alas! how often when a joke Seems in our sleeve, and safe enough, There comes some unexpected stroke And hangs a weeper on the cuff! ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood


Words linked to "Weeper" :   unfortunate person, unfortunate, weep, blubberer, sorrower, mourner, lamenter, bawler, crier, griever


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