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threne, n.|θriːn|
Forms: 5–6 trene, 7 threen, 6– threne.
[ad. Gr. θρῆνος funeral lament. So obs. F. thrène (1526 in Godef. Compl.).]
A song of lamentation; a dirge, threnody; formerly spec. (in pl.) the Lamentations of Jeremiah (LXX θρῆνοι Ἰερεµίου, Vulgate Threni).
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 85 The seide Ieremy..made also the trenes, that is to say, the lamentaciones. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 7 Y⊇ paynfull deth of our sauyour..of the whiche is made mencyon in the fyrst chapytre of Trenys. 1593Southwell St. Peter's Compl. 2 My threnes an endlesse Alphabet doe finde. 1601Shakes. Phœnix & Turtle 49 Whereupon it made this threne To the phœnix and the dove. 1651Bp. H. King in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 567 Some of these Psalms may serve as Threnes and Dirges to lament the Present Miseries. 1811Lamb Guy Faux Misc. Wks. (1871) 372 The tears and sad threnes of the matrons in universal mourning. 1960R. Eberhart Coll. Poems 1930–60 14 The perfect lament, and threne of sorrow's throat.
So threne v. [cf. Gr. θρηνεῖν], to compose or sing a threne; threˈnetic, threˈnetical adjs. [Gr. θρηνητικός], pertaining to a threnody; mournful.
1890Univ. Rev. Dec. 540 Her voice grew strangely low as she *threned.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Threnetick..mournful, lamentable. 1850Mure Hist. Lang. & Lit. Greece III. 325 Threnetic odes are also ascribed to Sappho.
1829Carlyle Misc., Voltaire (1872) II. 152 *Threnetical discourses. |