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Formal lament
Answer for the clue "Formal lament ", 5 letters:
elegy
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Word definitions for elegy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: lament ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Elegy is a Maxi single /EP by symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes , released on 2 May 2005. Almost all vocals are by the Norwegian singer Liv Kristine , with some backing "growls" by her husband Alexander Krull . The song "Elegy" is taken from the then upcoming ...
Usage examples of elegy.
His Slavophil and reactionary effusions are rather second-rate, but some of the elegies, written in a state of dejection during his sufferings, have genuine human feeling in them without losing any of his verbal splendor.
Mishap to a Queening PawnON SUNDAY, the day after the affair at Lake of Menteith, Lord Culter was also taking aquatic exercise of a kind which all but turned his epithalamics into elegies.
From this ignorance in some, and vanity in others, we see the monthly and diurnal publications abounding with ballads, odes, elegies, epitaphs, and allegories, the non-descript ephemera from the heated brains of self-important poetasters, all ushered into notice under the appellation of SONNET!
He heard elegies to springs on planets which no longer existed, green dances and firelight, wails and halloos, a harvest of conversations without number.