Definitions
Mournful or expressing sorrow for something lost.
Word origin
From Middle French élégiaque, from Latin elegīacus, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγειακός (elegeiakós).
Used in a sentence
“the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter”
“Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?”
“And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,”
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01“Mournful”7 letters
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