moirologist

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A professional mourner. rare
    — The moirologists will sing of the loneliness of the living, of the horrors of death, of the black earth, and the cold dreary frozen Hades; and, in the strange language of hyperbole, in which they love to indulge, they will wonder how the sun could venture to shine on so lamentable a scene as the one before them.

词形变化

moirologists plural

词源

From Ancient Greek μοῖρα (moîra, “fate”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration”).
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