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“threnodies”
1. A song or a poem of lamentation or mourning for someone who is dead: Mark's mother made all the plans for her funeral in advance, choosing and purchasing a casket and even selecting the threnody that she wanted to be sung at the service.
2. An expression of sorrow and despair about a situation or condition: The threnody of grief was heard beyond the chapel near the cemetery, where the relatives of the little child who had passed away had gathered.
3. Etymology: from Greek threnoidia, from threnos, "lament" [show sadness or disappointment] + oide, "song".
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2. An expression of sorrow and despair about a situation or condition: The threnody of grief was heard beyond the chapel near the cemetery, where the relatives of the little child who had passed away had gathered.
3. Etymology: from Greek threnoidia, from threnos, "lament" [show sadness or disappointment] + oide, "song".
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