Elegiac vs Funereal - What's the difference?
elegiac | funereal |
Of, or relating to an elegy.
Expressing sorrow or mourning.
* Elizabeth Browning
A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
* {{quote-book, 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare, page=385
, passage=His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs }}
Of or relating to a funeral.
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* 2000 , (Goerge RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 474:
Similar to a funeral, such as dignified or solemn.
* {{quote-book
, page=171
, year=1900
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As adjectives the difference between elegiac and funereal
is that elegiac is of, or relating to an elegy while funereal is of or relating to a funeral.As a noun elegiac
is a poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.elegiac
English
(wikipedia elegiac)Adjective
(en adjective)- the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
- Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.
Quotations
* 1808 , , Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field , "Canto the Third: Introduction": *: Hast thou no elegiac verse *: For Brunswick's venerable hearse?Noun
(en noun)citation
funereal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
- Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.
citation, passage="A funereal gloom prevailed over the whole scene."}}