threnody
noun
a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
threnodies
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pluralof threnody.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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On “From Ukraine, For Ukraine,” a darkly brilliant new omnibus album by the cutting-edge Kyiv label Standard Deviation, grief and rage melt into impudently beautiful contemporary threnodies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
By fusing gay rage and sorrow with familiar musical gestures—Straussian orchestral explosions, Samuel Barber-like threnodies for strings—it ennobled a portion of the population for which many orchestra subscribers might have felt disgust.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2019
Gazing at demagoguery, environmental ruin and intimate betrayal, Thom Yorke croons threnodies, not lullabies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2016
Less popular, less memorably chantable than Poet Eliot's neatly allusive threnodies, poems by Pound are trademarked by no less scholarship, by language that is both more violent and more obscure.
From Time Magazine Archive
What wonder that their praises were sung in many loving though halting threnodies, in long-winded but tender eulogies, in labored anagrams, in quaintly spelled epitaphs?--for the ministers' wives were the saints of the Puritan calendar.
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
