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Definition of Threnodic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threnodic
Literary usage of Threnodic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"And in a way it must be, at least for the purpose of determining whether the
inscriptional, epigrammatic, hortatory, erotic, threnodic, ..."
2. The Bookman (1905)
"... ringing the same changes on the one theme, the seditious plays are nevertheless
gifted with a threnodic power which is little short of remarkable. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"So far, however, as the real foundation ceremonies of Craft In The Muses' threnodic
by H. Adamson (Perth, 1638) are the lines— " For what we do presage is ..."
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