Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of threnodies; a composer of dirges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A person who writes or says a
threnody .
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Examples
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As threnodist, she laments the funeral pyre of history: “And it smolders still, smolders without end …” (Liner Notes 8 – 9).
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Leye 2009
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People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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Thus Jeremias more than any other man was plainly called – it may be said, driven by an inner force – to lament the ruined city as threnodist of the great penitential period of the Old
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The death of the Rev. Samuel Stone, of Hartford, afforded an opportunity of this sort not to be missed, and his threnodist accordingly celebrated him as a
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Rev. Samuel Stone, of Hartford, afforded an opportunity of this sort not to be missed, and his threnodist accordingly celebrated him as a
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Does Patty really know what dendrochronological ", abecedarian, and threnodist mean?
Cynthia Kling: Interview with Janice Marx About Her Daughter's Novel 2008
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