| 单词 | elegiast | 
| 释义 | elegiastn.  A writer of elegies; an elegist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > 			[noun]		 > lyric poet > elegiac poet elegiaca1586 elegiac poeta1586 elegiographer1623 elegiast1720 monodist1751 elegist1762 threnodist1827 1720    Casuist 2 Mar. 86/2  				Journey-men-poets: Under the last Head will come Elegiasts, Bell-men..and all the fantastick Tribe of wrong-headed Gentlemen. 1776    O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield 		(ed. 2)	 xvii. 134  				These elegiasts [1766 elegists]..are in despair for griefs that give the sensible part of mankind very little pain. 1801    Monthly Visitor Dec. 385  				For as the elegiast sweetly says—‘Grief unaffected, suits but ill with art.’ 1848    Edinb. Rev. July 204  				An Elegiast unequalled in modern literature. 1969    Daily Tel. 3 July 20/2  				She is the elegiast of bleakness and decay, an original artist of major attainment. 1997    T. N. Corns in  N. Rhodes Eng. Renaissance Prose 261  				Sprat, who had been an elegiast of Cromwell and panegyrist of his son. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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