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
From an idyllist and elegist we find him suddenly transformed into an unsparing master of poetical satire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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