Bereavement

(n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

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• I inquired, fancying that I had discovered in the incurable grief of bereavement, a key to that same aged lady's desperate ill-humour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In some manner he had learned of my own sad bereavement, and his sympathy was shown in his manner rather than in his words. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I longed to be his; I panted to return: it was not too late; I could yet spare him the bitter pang of bereavement. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I hope no bereavement has befallen her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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