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What is the noun for elegize?

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elegiac
  1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
elegy
  1. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is a certain lightness of tone in this poem that alleviates the heaviness of elegy.”
      “The texts I shall consider are fascinating in themselves, but they also contribute to our understanding of modern elegy in general.”
      “Before leaving the city, Henry composed a simple but attractive little piece in A minor entitled Cymric elegy, for three-part string orchestra.”
elegist
  1. A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse.
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    1. “When the affair was discovered, the love-struck elegist was arrested and thrown in jail.”
      “Despite his Marxist trappings, he was really a bourgeois elegist, a prose poet singing of lost childhood realms.”
      “If Rautavaara is a dreamer, Sallinen is an ironist, an elegist, a dealer in lyric fragments.”
elegiast
  1. One who composes elegies.
elegiack
  1. Obsolete form of elegiac.
elegiographer
  1. (obsolete, rare) an elegist
elegiographers
  1. plural of elegiographer
elegiacks
  1. plural of elegiack
elegiasts
  1. plural of elegiast
elegists
  1. plural of elegist
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    1. “The earliest of the Greek elegists, Callinus and Tyrtaeus, use elegy to rouse a warlike spirit in sinking hearts.”
      “Many elegists question whether they have the strength to accomplish their purpose, often calling for help from the muses or from a sympathetically grief-stricken nature.”
elegiacs
  1. plural of elegiac
  2. Examples:
    1. “In poems written entirely in hexameters the break is possibly not quite so rare as in elegiacs.”
      “He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.”
      “Ars amatoria comprises three books of mock-didactic elegiacs on the art of seduction and intrigue.”
elegies
  1. plural of elegy
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    1. “That is, modern family elegies, though occasioned by death, do not seek compensation for that loss.”
      “He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success.”
      “Except for writers of obituaries and elegies, no serious biographer judges his subject under the aspect of eternity.”
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