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Answer for the clue "Crown and Church join in dirge ", 8 letters:
coronach

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A coronach (also written coranich , corrinoch , coranach , cronach , etc.) is the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the Goll, being the third part of a round of keening , the traditional improvised singing at a death, wake or funeral in the Highlands of Scotland ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context historical Scotland Ireland English) dirge, lamentation

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coranach \Cor"a*nach\, n. [Gael. coranach, or corranach, a crying, the Irish funeral cry (the keen), a dirge; comh with + ranaich a roaring, ran to roar, shriek.] A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich , corrinoch , coronach , cronach ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge , lament , requiem , threnody ]

Usage examples of coronach.

There, in the notch between the peaks, the dirge collects again, feeding in upon itself, slapping into the baffled granite and rebounding, rolling in its torment till it echoes up into a banshee wail, an eternal keening coronach, despair.

He was playing a slow number, a coronach, and it was so sad that it almost tore Nell's heart asunder.