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