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Definition of Threnodist
1. n. One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
Definition of Threnodist
1. Noun. (rare) A person who writes or says a threnody. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Threnodist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threnodist
Literary usage of Threnodist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Thus Jeremías more than any other man was plainly called—it may be said, driven
by an inner force—to lament the ruined city as threnodist of the great ..."
2. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"He lived to write elegies on Timrod and Lanier and to make himself the threnodist
of the old South: Forgotten! Tho' a thousand years should pass, ..."
3. The Bookman (1908)
"There were marked differences between Thyrsis and his threnodist, and these the
critic brings out, though by no means in the form of an express Plu- ..."
4. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"He lived to write elegies on Timrod and Lanier and to make himself the threnodist
of the old South: Forgotten! Tho' a thousand years should pass, ..."
5. A Political History of the State of New York by De Alva Stanwood Alexander (1909)
"People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and
every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist. ..."
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