What does threne mean?
Threne means a dirge or lamentation.
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/θɹiːn/ · noun
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
A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.
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Threne means a dirge or lamentation.
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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
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