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Expressing poetic sorrow for something past
Answer for the clue "Expressing poetic sorrow for something past ", 7 letters:
elegiac
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Word definitions for elegiac in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, in reference to lines of verse of a particular construction, from Middle French élégiaque , from Latin elegiacus , from Greek elegeiakos , from eleigeia (see elegy ). In ancient Greece the verse form was used especially with mournful music. Meaning ...
Usage examples of elegiac.
Three celebrated Elegiac poets--Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid--also belong to the Augustan age.
Strachan, Kincardineshire, where a tombstone, inscribed with some elegiac verses, has been erected to his memory.