Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a threnody; elegiac.

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  • adjective Pertaining or similar to a threnody.

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Examples

  • Raskin waltzes slowly with that bitter mistress, his mortality, to the threnodial sob of bagpipes?

    VQR 2009

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