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moirologist

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

noun moirologists

rare A professional mourner. 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
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@misc{moirologist_2026,
  title = {moirologist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moirologist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}