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
Baker, like Yeats, was an elegist even before he’d suffered much loss.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019
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
But not for us, O plaintive elegist, Thine epicedial tone of sad farewell To joy in wisdom and to thought in youth!
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry
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