elegious

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elegious (comparative more elegious, superlative most elegious)

  1. (obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
    • 1634, Francis Quarles, “Canticles v. 8”, in Emblems, Divine and Moral, book 5:
      If your elegious breath should hap to rouze / A happy tear, close harb'ring in his eye.

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