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eulogy vs elegy

eulogy

Definitions

noun

  1. a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently
  2. a formal expression of praise

Examples

It's silence in remembrance of a talented, haunted man, but he deserves a eulogy, and his guitar speaks better than anyone ever could.

A line or two of grudging praise is all he gets when a eulogy might be in order.

He was the most self-effacing of men - the last thing he would have relished was a eulogy.

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elegy

Definitions

noun

  1. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

Examples

The Angel's Share is an elegy for the old, unreconstructed island ways that have been all but decimated in the name of progress which, while making things a whole lot more efficient, left an unholy mess in its wake as well.

The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.

His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn.

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