elegist

American  

[el-i-jist] / ˈɛl ɪ dʒɪst /

noun

1. the author of an elegy.

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Etymology

Origin of elegist

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

Example Sentences

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

This elegist records also that, after her second widowhood, she lived a     "life of holynes and faith,     In reading of God's word and contemplation     Which healped her to assurance of salvation."

From The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Marble, Annie Russell