elegist
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A person who writes poems that mourn someone who died
- noun
- /ˈɛlədʒɪst/
- Literature
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elegista
- As an elegist, he often wrote moving pieces that expressed deep sadness for those who had passed away.
Examples
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Ramazani concedes, however, that some modern and contemporary elegists "have reclaimed compensatory mourning by subduing its promise" (30).
Academic text (2014) -
He was a tribal spokesman and elegist, arbitrator and love-sick troubadour, warrior and soothsayer.
Academic text (2010) -
Here is the ending of Alfred Corn's elegy for Coventry, bombed to destruction in 1940, and for Coventry's elegists: pre-formatted table --
Academic text (2009) -
The elegist composed a beautiful poem to honor his late grandmother.
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In her role as an elegist, she captured the sorrow of loss in her heartfelt verses.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elegist comes from elegy, which comes from an old Greek word meaning 'lament' or 'song for the dead'. So an elegist is a person who writes those sad poems to remember people who have died.