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Etymology
Etymology tree English elegiacal Middle English -ly English -ly English elegiacally From elegiacal + -ly.
Meanings
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In the manner of an elegy, or funeral poem
He was co-founder of Naropa's writing program, the elegiacally named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, later that year.
2007 November 4, Claire Dederer, “The Inner Scholar”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| more elegiacally | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most elegiacally | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |