elegist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elegist
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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
Callinus of Ephesus, who flourished in the 7th century, is the earliest elegist of whom we possess fragments.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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