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elegist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | poet |
| Derivation | elegy |
Examples of elegist
elegist
Elegist early on, his sonorous voice told of dead relatives, dead friends and dead neighbors.
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Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp.
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Shakur also serves as his own elegist.
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As a result, the elegist is forced to go through increasingly complicated contortions in order to sound sufficiently simple.
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Any elegist must confront this fact.
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The fearless elegist of Southeast Asia had given us indelible portraits of a world that is already as far away as the last emperor in Hue.
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Nobody does the cowboy blarney better than Larry McMurtry, elegist of the old Southwest and observer of the new culture in the Sunbelt, where the air conditioner is king.
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Ovid is traditionally considered the final significant love elegist in the evolution of the genre and one of the most versatile in his handling of the genre's conventions.
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- The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
- A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse
