elegize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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to compose an elegy or elegies (in memory of)
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(intr) to write elegiacally
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Origin of elegize
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She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spielberg has chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing.
From Time Magazine Archive
If inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy for a muse, Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
One elegized figure is Benson James, the poet’s uncle, whose portrait, taken by Richard Avedon in 1979, appears on the cover.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019
Arnold, as we know, loved and elegized one Dean of Westminster.
From Matthew Arnold by Russell, George William Erskine
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