Moirologist
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A professional mourner. rare
"The moirologists will sing of the loneliness of the living, of the horrors of death, of the black earth, and the cold dreary frozen Hades; and, in the strange language of hyperbole, in which they love to indulge, they will wonder how the sun could venture to shine on so lamentable a scene as the one before them."
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More examples"The moirologists will sing of the loneliness of the living, of the horrors of death, of the black earth, and the cold dreary frozen Hades; and, in the strange language of hyperbole, in which they love to indulge, they will wonder how the sun could venture to shine on so lamentable a scene as the one before them."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μοῖρα (moîra, “fate”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration”).
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