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- noun Plural form of
elegiast .
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Examples
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The great fault of these elegiasts is, that they are in despair for griefs that give the sensible part of mankind very little pain.
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Goethe cultivated a special, italianate hand for this portfolio of twenty-four "elegies," so called because he was emulating the elegiasts of
Erotica Romana Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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The great fault of these elegiasts is, that they are in despair for griefs that give the sensible part of mankind very little pain.
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-- The great fault of these elegiasts is, that they are in despair for griefs that give the sensible part of mankind very little pain.
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1752
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