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Definition of Threnode
1. n. A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.
Definition of Threnode
1. Noun. A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Threnode
1. a threnody [n -S] - See also: threnody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threnode
Literary usage of Threnode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"... and Richard Best at Grayes-Inne Gate, 1649. 4°, A—D in fours. threnode.
threnode : Or, Englands Passing-Bell. ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1864)
"... Dryden's threnode Augustalis ; Sir H. Halford's Essay on De* of Eminent Persons.
See also a fragment of a letter written by the Earl of Ailesbury, ..."
3. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"The threnode of the Laureate was forthcoming. The public was, as it had no right
to be, disappointed. Tennyson's Muse was ever a wild and willful creature, ..."
4. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Milton, himself «¡other example of his own threnode, breaks forth in this splendid
utterance of lyrical confession: " God of our fathers what is man ? ..."
5. Victorian Poets by Edmund Clarence ( Stedman (1901)
"As a threnode, nothing comparable to it had then appeared since the " Adonais "
of Shelley. If not its author's farewell to verse, it has been his latest ..."
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