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Grammar : Noun
Spell : thren-uh-dee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈθrɛn ə di


Définition of threnody

Origin :
  • "song of lamentation," 1630s, from Greek threnodia, from threnos "dirge, lament" + oide "ode" (see ode). Greek threnos probably is from a PIE imitative root meaning "to murmur, hum;" cf. Old English dran "drone," Gothic drunjus "sound," Greek tenthrene "a kind of wasp."
  • noun song
Example sentences :
  • I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason.
  • Extract from : « Andersonville, Volume 3 » by John McElroy
  • In Maeterlinck's mimings there is something of the spirit of Walt Whitman's threnody.
  • Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker
  • The most famous as well as the most powerful and original of Bion's poems remaining to us is the threnody upon Adonis.
  • Extract from : « Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • From below a new sound had been added to the threnody of the hills; a new note, grumbling and roaring, insistent and strong.
  • Extract from : « The Plunderer » by Roy Norton
  • The subject of the threnody is a nymph of the name of Dido, whose identity can only be vaguely conjectured.
  • Extract from : « Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama » by Walter W. Greg
  • Yet the single poem 'Threnody' would establish Emerson's title to a place among the guild of poets.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 » by Various
  • But the ode, in a more or less irregular form, whether pan or threnody, has been the instrument of several of our leading lyrists.
  • Extract from : « Victorian Songs » by Various
  • The Threnody, written after the death of a deeply loved child, is a beautiful and impressive lament.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson » by John Morley
  • The Finale is a threnody, one of overpowering grief, the motto of which might be "vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
  • Extract from : « Music: An Art and a Language » by Walter Raymond Spalding
  • The beautiful "Threnody" on the death of his boy, reveals the sorrow of a soaring mind rather than the grief of a crushed heart.
  • Extract from : « Recollections and Impressions » by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

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