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adj. Pertaining or similar to a threnody.

Same as threnodial.

"Lévy's bitter springtime, his discovery of the Gulag that other intellectuals, including Sartre, had known about for over twenty years, has engendered the purple prose, alternately threnodic and dithyrambic, that we find in Barbarism with a Human Face and The Testament of God."

threnodist   

threnodial    elegiac