elegiacal
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌɛlɪˈd͡ʒaɪəkəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪəkəl
Adjective
[edit]elegiacal (comparative more elegiacal, superlative most elegiacal)
- elegiac; expressing sorrow.
- 1848, Thomas Chalmers, Posthumous Works of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers: Daily Scripture Readings, volume 3, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 373:
- He gratefully sings unto God—yet follows this up with an elegiacal lamentation of his own suffering, not unmixed perhaps with the sorrows of afflicted patriotism.
- 1988, Jay Roberts, Richard II: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Shakespeare bibliographies), volume 1, Garland, →ISBN, page 46:
- Shakespeare antagonized the queen by permitting his play to be performed on the eve of the Essex rebellion, and he persisted in his contempt for her by refusing to write any elegiacal verses on Elizabeth's death.