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bereaval (複数形 bereavals)

1. (obsolete) bereavement
   • 1830, Horace Smith, Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, page 15:

     There was less of grief or distress in the family than is usually felt under such a trying bereaval.

   • 1857, Samuel Neil, “Epoch Men”, in The British Controversialist, volume 3, page 196:

     Among those who paid the visits of condolence, customary on such a bereaval,  […]

   • 1891, Maxwell Gray, In the Heart of the Storm, page 82:

     But neither Philip nor his father heeded the cold wind in the bitter blast of bereaval that beat upon them, as they stood by the yawning grave, which swallowed up Philip's childhood […]