to elegize
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- verb
- /ˈɛlɪˌdʒaɪz/
- Literature
- When he died, the scribblers of Ireland tripped over one another to elegize him.
Examples
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The hard stings had gone in, and had been changed by time into the things I praised and elegized.
Academic text (1990) -
"Never again would birds' song be the same," Frost elegizes Eve's wayward voice elsewhere in Adam's woods.
Academic text (2008) -
Through the character of Kittredge, Mailer also elegizes Bobby Kennedy.
Academic text (1997) -
The dhol and tabla also occur throughout A Mighty Heart, serving to propel a thriller-like rhythm while a more plangent Western piano theme does more of the film's work of elegizing Daniel Pearl.
Academic text (2009) -
Still, the novel cannot really be said to parody the morality system, nor even to elegize it as something now lost beyond recovery, though Bernard Zelechow observes in Der Prozess a repetition of Adam's expulsion from Eden.
Academic text (1998) -
She might have added "new poetic forms" to her list of things we don't need to create from scratch, as yesterday's prosody remains reliable for eulogizing her mother during her final illness and elegizing her in the autobiography after her death.
Academic text (2010) -
When famous poets die, many people come forward to elegize their contributions to literature.
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The newspaper published an article to elegize the legendary actor who passed away last week.
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At the memorial service, friends and family shared stories to elegize their beloved teacher.
How Mournful
Surface Forms
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Etymology
The word elegize comes from the noun elegy and the verb ending -ize, and elegy goes back to a Greek word meaning 'to mourn' or 'to sing about loss'. So, to elegize someone is to write an elegy or to mourn them in a poem.