An archaic spelling of bereaved, meaning left sad and lonely, especially by the death of a loved one.
Variant past tense of berreave (bereave), with double-r spelling. The -ed ending marks past tense and past participle. This spelling variation reflects earlier English before modern standardization.
The double-r spelling shows how English went through a process of standardization in the 1700s-1800s, where spelling became fixed through dictionaries and printing—before that, people spelled the same word multiple ways and nobody thought it was wrong!
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