- a variation of chant.
chaunt
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They were floating slowly down with the tide as we passed, and singing a sort of sad, monotonous chaunt, which sounded weird and pathetic, but impressionnant.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
At intervals she sang: but what she sang was more like a low muttered chaunt, than a regular song: at least Bertram understood not a word of it, if words they were that escaped her.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by Thomas De Quincey
The chaunt or psalm is then renewed, and another devotee comes forward howling; snatches a portion of prickly pear, and actually devours it ravenously.
From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by W. G. Windham
See, mouldering stone and metal’s rust Belie the vaunt That man can bless one pile of dust With chime or chaunt.’
From Cities of the Dawn by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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