Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An elegist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who composes elegies.
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- noun One who
composes elegies .
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Examples
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Tibullus was a tender and sad elegiast, less passionate and less powerful than Catullus, but gracious and touching.
Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881
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This elegiast was the second son of Anthony Hammond, a brother-in-law of
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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This elegiast was the second son of Anthony Hammond, a brother-in-law of
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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Trevanion and Ellinor drawing closer and closer to each other, knowing private life and its charms for the first time, -- verily, it would have been a theme for an elegiast like Tibullus.
The Caxtons — Volume 18 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Trevanion and Ellinor drawing closer and closer to each other, knowing private life and its charms for the first time, -- verily, it would have been a theme for an elegiast like Tibullus.
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In the same year died dear, simple-minded Gay, who found in Pope a sincere mourner, and an elegant elegiast; and on the 7th of June 1733, expired good old Mrs Pope, at the age of ninety-four.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Alexander Pope 1716
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