mourn for

mourn for (one)

To experience grief over one's death. Don't mourn for me, sweetheart—I've lived a good, long life, and now it is my time to go. She was still mourning for her husband when her mother passed away from a stroke.
See also: mourn
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

mourn for someone or something

 and mourn over someone or something
to grieve for someone or something. Everyone will mourn for you when you go. We all mourned over the end of the holiday. There is no point in mourning over your cat. It won't come back.
See also: mourn
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • mourn
  • mourn for (one)
  • mourning
  • mourn over (someone or something)
  • good grief
  • Good grief!
  • sweetheart
  • grief
  • come to grief
  • come to grief, to
References in periodicals archive
We mourn for Cariboo, and we admit frankly that although this newspaper reported a year ago that the end of the diocese was sealed and delivered, we hoped that it would not be so.
Cariboo, 1914-2001
To-day, O hearken, nor your folly mourn For time mispent, that never will return.
Re-membering America: Phyllis Wheatley's intertextual epic