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• n  a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)

• At this impromptu shrine, a griever named Creek left a rock he had found on a nearby beach.
• Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face: "I'm a reclusive griever whose disfigured face and mysterious past have isolated me from human feeling.

• mourner
• sorrower
• lamenter

Quotes

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• Diane Kruger in St. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog)
  Actress Diane Kruger told Marie Claire magazine found work as a child growing up in Germany: "Between the ages of eight and 12 I was a professional griever. : They would have young girls with a candle stand in front of the coffins. It was the worst...
• Craig T Nelson in MSNBC
  Nelson says he's never thought of himself as "a big griever" but he's found it very hard to lose the actress, who was an integral part of the show and whom he much admired.