Definition of "threnodist" []

• A person who writes or says a threnody. (noun)

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• "As threnodist, she laments the funeral pyre of history: “And it smolders still, smolders without end …” (Liner Notes 8 – 9)."
• "People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist."
• "Thus Jeremias more than any other man was plainly called – it may be said, driven by an inner force – to lament the ruined city as threnodist of the great penitential period of the Old"