[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The fact or state of being bereaved or deprived of anything; spec. as in prec.
1731. Bailey, II. Bereavement, a deprivation or being bereav’d or depriv’d of anything.
1827. Hor. Smith, Tor Hill (L.). He bore his bereavement with stoical fortitude.
1858. J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 197. Total bereavement and utter death of joy.
1866. Alger, Solit. Nat. & Man, II. 40. Bereavement, in its essence, is always the loss of some object accustomed to draw forth the soothing or cheering reactions of the soul.
