Crossword-Solution: ELEGIST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elegist | n. | A write of elegies. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ELEGIST | anagram | ELEGITS, LIEGEST, STIEGEL, TGEISEL |
We have 30 clues for the answer “ELEGIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Poet writing dirges. | 1 answer |
| the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | 1 answer |
| Writer of sad poems | 1 answer |
| Writer of plaintive verse. | 1 answer |
| Writer of pieces in passing? | 1 answer |
| Writer of mournful verse. | 1 answer |
| Writer of laments. | 1 answer |
| Thomas Gray, notably | 1 answer |
| Thomas Gray, for one | 1 answer |
| Thomas Gray, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Thomas Gray was one | 1 answer |
| Somber poet | 1 answer |
| Shelley or Gray | 1 answer |
| Rilke, for one | 1 answer |
| Poet like Thomas Gray. | 1 answer |
| Ovid, during his exile | 1 answer |
| Gray, for one | 1 answer |
| Gray was one | 1 answer |
| Composer of threnodies. | 1 answer |
| Composer of laments. | 1 answer |
| Blue bard | 1 answer |
| Bard for the bereaved | 1 answer |
| AUTHOR of an elegy | 1 answer |
| Gray, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Sad: Poet. | 2 answers |
| Donne, for one | 3 answers |
| Ovid, for one | 3 answers |
| mourner | 4 answers |
| Weeper | 6 answers |
| Gray | 86 answers |
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Sentences with ELEGIST (5)
There were two inquisitors more relentless than the others; first, the little scrubby fellow who claimed for his share all the houris of a Mussulman's palace; another, the great elegist from the provinces.
There were two inquisitors more relentless than the others; first, the little scrubby fellow who claimed for his share all the houris of a Mussulman’s palace; another, the great elegist from the provinces.
The elegist, reserving blasphemy for his conclusion, now becomes foolish: In thy expyring it was made appear In bloody wounds the Trinity was here.
Half-pity and half-envy dimmed the eyes Of that old poet, gazing on the scene Where long ago his youth had flowed serene, And all the burden of his ode was this: "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." II But not for us, O plaintive elegist, Thine epicedial tone of sad farewell To joy in wisdom and to thought in youth! Our western Muse would keep her tryst With sunrise, not with sunset, and foretell In boyhood's bliss the dawn of manhood's truth.
When Time, one elegist said, should dissolve his "Stratford monument," the laurel about Shakespeare's brow would wear its greenest hue.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1944–2022).