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Adjective
elegious (comparative more elegious, superlative most elegious)
- (obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
1634, Francis Quarles, “Canticles v. 8”, in Emblems, Divine and Moral, book 5:If your elegious breath should hap to rouze / A happy tear, close harb'ring in his eye.
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