Difference between Bereft and Mourning

BEREFT vs MOURNING: NOUN

The traditional clothes worn by those who mourn (in Western societies, typically coloured black).
Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death.
The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation.
See under Deep.
The outward tokens or signs of sorrow for the dead, such as the draping of buildings in giving expression to public sorrow, the wearing of garments of a particular color, the use of black-bordered handkerchiefs, black-edged writing-paper and visiting-cards, etc.
State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
The actions or expressions of one who has suffered a bereavement.
Conventional outward signs of grief for the dead, such as a black armband or black clothes.
The period during which a death is mourned.
See mourn.
The act of lamenting or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.

Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
Sorrowful through loss or deprivation
A wild dove (Zenaidura macroura) found throughout the United States; -- so named from its plaintive note. Called also Carolina dove. See Illust. under Dove.
Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing
An American ground warbler (Geothlypis Philadelphia). The male has the head, neck, and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.
A garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads.

Having to do with mourning for the dead; of such kind as is used in mourning for the dead: as, a mourning garment; a mourning hat-band.

Despairing, Deficient, Hopeless, Forlorn, Deprived, Lacking, Devoid, Unbeloved, Grief stricken, Grieving, Mourning, Lovelorn, Sorrowful, Sorrowing, Unloved

Sad, Tragedy, Memorial, Condolence, Condolences, Sadness, Grief, Sorrow, Grief stricken, Bereft, Bereavement, Sorrowing, Bereaved, Sorrowful, Grieving

Despairing, Deficient, Hopeless, Forlorn, Deprived, Lacking, Devoid, Unbeloved, Grief stricken, Grieving, Mourning, Lovelorn, Sorrowful, Sorrowing, Unloved

Sad, Tragedy, Memorial, Condolence, Condolences, Sadness, Grief, Sorrow, Grief stricken, Bereft, Bereavement, Sorrowing, Bereaved, Sorrowful, Grieving

In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
TOMORROW, A MOUND BUILDERS, THE MOUNTAIN CRONE, THE MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA MOURNING PICTURES MOUSETRAP AND OTHER PLAYS, THE MOUSETRAP, THE MOVE OVER, MRS.
In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Jataro personally built the mourning shrine for Masaru; Monaca then uses this as an excuse to not build Jataro a mourning shrine.
The only possible mourning is the impossible mourning.
Fans circulate and disseminate broadly as part of public mourning, but mourning families look inward, seek silence, achieve some semblance of privacy.
God instructs the mourning Israelites to shave their heads, which is contrary to modern mourning practices of not shaving.
Finest Quality mourning Bonnet draped with extra large grenadhie mourning veil, as shown In illustration.
However, the connection between Black mourning and AIDS mourning goes beyond theory or abstraction.
Royal Mourning was previously known as Court Mourning.