threnody
noun
a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
threnodic
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a word derived from
threnody.
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Result: during the threnodic '30s he wrote best-selling proletarian novels so much better than the professional proletarians that people did not realize what they were.
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