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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : el-i-jee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛl ɪ dʒi |
Définition of elegy
Origin :- 1510s, from Middle French elegie, from Latin elegia, from Greek elegeia ode "an elegaic song," from elegeia, fem. of elegeios "elegaic," from elegos "poem or song of lament," perhaps from a Phrygian word.
- noun dirge
- A Colonel Pickering died of it, on whom the chaplain wrote an elegy.
- Extract from : « Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts » by Rosalind Northcote
- This scene closes with an elegy foreboding the coming tragedy.
- Extract from : « The Standard Oratorios » by George P. Upton
- That is Gray's "Elegy in a Churchyard" turned to resurrection spectacle.
- Extract from : « The Wedding Ring » by T. De Witt Talmage
- A few days after, Keimer sent for me to print off the Elegy.
- Extract from : « Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin » by Benjamin Franklin
- We were in no danger of confusing it with the 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.'
- Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
- The Elegy is the glorification of the obscure; therein lies its popularity.
- Extract from : « Stories of Authors, British and American » by Edwin Watts Chubb
- In the autumn of 1742 was begun the Elegy in a Country Church-yard.
- Extract from : « Stories of Authors, British and American » by Edwin Watts Chubb
- Which song do you chuse, the Dying Swan, or the Elegy on the death of a mad dog?'
- Extract from : « The Vicar of Wakefield » by Oliver Goldsmith
- The elegy is a reflective lyric prompted by the death of some one.
- Extract from : « Lady of the Lake » by Sir Walter Scott
- Perhaps Mr. Merrill, too, had been thinking of the Elegy that morning.
- Extract from : « Coniston, Complete » by Winston Churchill
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