chaunt

American  

[chawnt, chahnt] / tʃɔnt, tʃɑnt /

noun

1. an obsolete variant of chant.

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chaunt British  

/ tʃɔːnt /

noun

1. a less common variant of chant

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Other Word Forms

• chaunter
  noun

Example Sentences

There is a chaunt in the recitation both of Coleridge and Wordsworth, which acts as a spell upon the hearer, and disarms the judgement.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

The clocks had long struck midnight, and the sereno had several times raised his dirge-like chaunt in the street outside, before my companion came to me.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

In praise of many a noble name, Let lesser poets chaunt a p�an; The deathless fame will I proclaim Of others, more plebeian.

From The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) by Graham, Harry

The spring returns, the trees are in their bloom, and the forest in its beauty, the birds chaunt, the sea is smooth, the gently-rising tide sounds hollow, the wind is still. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

"But even a priest must chaunt the mass; eh, what?"

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James