Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The composer of an elegy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of elegies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A write of elegies.
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- noun A
writer offuneral songs; one who writes inelegiac verse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
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Examples
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Two young women were in attendance, as was — in spirit only — William Cullen Bryant, poetical elegist of an Indian maiden thwarted in love who, legend said, had thrown herself off a precipice of this same mountain.
January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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Two young women were in attendance, as was — in spirit only — William Cullen Bryant, poetical elegist of an Indian maiden thwarted in love who, legend said, had thrown herself off a precipice of this same mountain.
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And of all those writers—Zweig, Musil, Schnitzler, Kafka, Hofmannsthal, Kraus, Canetti, the list goes on—the supreme elegist of the Dual Monarchy was Joseph Roth.
Dispatches From a Lost Empire Tess Lewis 2012
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The elegist of one of her daughters by an earlier marriage referred to her flatteringly as “sweet mother Scribonia.”
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Euripides was a contemporary of Sophocles but not a politician himself; he was an occasional diplomat and elegist of the glorious dead, but his dyspeptic feelings about the world — during a war against Sparta that Athens was beginning to lose — are clear from all his plays, not least this last of Carson's trilogy.
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Euripides was a contemporary of Sophocles but not a politician himself; he was an occasional diplomat and elegist of the glorious dead, but his dyspeptic feelings about the world — during a war against Sparta that Athens was beginning to lose — are clear from all his plays, not least this last of Carson's trilogy.
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He can sound like the elegist of rural old imperial England, but he can sting in the present tense too, on matters from Princess Di to the \ "scream of rocket-burn\" in the war on Iraq.
Christopher Lydon: Sir Andrew Motion: poetry that looks like water and bites like gin 2009
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He can sound like the elegist of rural old imperial England, but he can sting in the present tense too, on matters from Princess Di to the \ "scream of rocket-burn\" in the war on Iraq.
Christopher Lydon: Sir Andrew Motion: poetry that looks like water and bites like gin 2009
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He can sound like the elegist of rural old imperial England, but he can sting in the present tense too, on matters from Princess Di to the "scream of rocket-burn" in the war on Iraq.
Christopher Lydon: Sir Andrew Motion: poetry that looks like water and bites like gin 2009
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What if the elegist fled his fame, and then had to face one last request for a poem, a request he could neither honor nor ignore...
Elegiacal 2007
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