elegist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elegist
Example Sentences
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He’s a hillbilly, an elegist, and a Yale Law School graduate.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025
Moribund and obdurate, Cassovan represents the old guard; he is the custodian and elegist of an unalienable tragedy.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2018
Indeed, negotiating the terrain of such an uncommonly broad, richly contoured oeuvre is no easy feat for the would-be elegist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
It is tempting to see in Edelshtein’s tragicomic day-to-day efforts on behalf of Yiddish a bitter self-parody of Ozick the practitioner-critic, Ozick the elegist of a vanished cultural past.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
When Time, one elegist said, should dissolve his "Stratford monument," the laurel about Shakespeare's brow would wear its greenest hue.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Lee, Sidney, Sir
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