Elegiacally

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In the manner of an elegy, or funeral poem

    "He was co-founder of Naropa's writing program, the elegiacally named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, later that year."

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"He was co-founder of Naropa's writing program, the elegiacally named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, later that year."

Etymology

From elegiacal + -ly.

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