Definition of "elegizing" []

• Present participle of elegize. (verb)

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• "I wanted to not cry when they sang "Danny Boy" at his funeral, elegizing the prodigal son who'd gone astray, lashing out at everyone loved him, seeking relief from a wound that would never heal."
• "The fragmented modernism of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" couldn't seem further from Milton's pastoral imagery, but Eliot's elegizing of himself and the modern world repeated the same pattern."
• "Because I am not worthy of elegizing you as long as I am alive?"