elegist

[el-i-jist]

noun

1. the author of an elegy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of elegist¹

First recorded in 1765–75; eleg(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

Forget the “minutiae of Medicaid policy,” tweeted Vice President JD Vance, supposed elegist of hillbillies and other downtrodden Americans — it’s the extra immigration crackdown cash that counts.

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These novelists are, at their hearts, elegists for time gone by.

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Has Kissinger, sly and witty, revived the tale as a wink toward his elegists?

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One of the few who came to Mr. Adams’s defense was the writer Jeremiah Moss, New York City’s career elegist, who embraced the suggestion that the wrong people ought to leave.

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Baker, like Yeats, was an elegist even before he’d suffered much loss.

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