elegiac

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Quotations 1.3 Noun

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (Canadian) IPA: /ˌɛləˈdʒaɪˌæk/ or IPA: /ˌɛləˈdʒaɪək/

[edit] Adjective

elegiac (comparative more elegiac, superlative most elegiac)

1. Of, or relating to an elegy.
2. Expressing sorrow or mourning.

[edit] Quotations

• 1808, Sir Walter Scott, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, "Canto the Third: Introduction":

  Hast thou no elegiac verse

  For Brunswick's venerable hearse?

[edit] Noun

elegiac (plural elegiacs)

1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
   • 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare^[1], 2nd ed., page 385:

     His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs