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Webster 1913 Edition
Threne
Threne
,Noun.
[L.
threnus
, Gr. [GREEK]. Cf. Drone
.] Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Shak.
The
threns
. . . of the prophet Jeremiah. Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Threne
THRENE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
threne
threne
English
Noun
threne (plural threnes)
- 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
- 1922: A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
Translations
a dirge or lamentation
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