Threne
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /θɹiːn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Threne is a noun meaning a dirge or lamentation.
Meaning
a dirge or lamentation.
Example Sentences
A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.
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
Word Forms
- threnes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tristich, requiem, threy, tricenary, torculus, tritheite.
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