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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elegy \El"e*gy\, n.; pl {Elegies}. [L. elegia, Gr ?, fem. sing. (cf. ?, prop., neut. pl of ? a distich in elegiac verse), fr ? elegiac, fr ? a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: elegy n : a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: {lament}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
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