MEANING
A writer of poetry expressing mourning or reflective sorrow.
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- modern elegist
- classical elegist
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The elegist turns private grief into public memory.
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- elegist
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular elegist; plural elegists. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.
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