Threne

//θɹiːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a dirge or lamentation

    "1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity she gazes forth Over her Capital of teen and threne"

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"1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity she gazes forth Over her Capital of teen and threne"

Etymology

From Latin threnus, from Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, “funeral lament”).

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