psalmody
noun
the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
psalmodic
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a word derived from
psalmody.
Example Sentences
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The book has several such passages, written in a psalmodic style, appealing to elemental feeling, to our sense of wonder or reverence before the mystery of life and death.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long
The Camisars subsided into their ordinary vocation of psalmodic whiners, and no more was heard of their sect or their miracles.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
There are two symphonies, ten suites, and concert overture, three symphonic poems, an oratorio, "The Captivity," six string quartettes, and a mass of psalmodic and other vocal writing.
During the month of August 1881 my brother resolved to reveal the teaching of the Eternal Recurrence, in dithyrambic and psalmodic form, through the mouth of Zarathustra.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Olivet” with “My faith looks up to Thee” makes as inviolable a case of psalmodic monogamy as “Toplady” with “Rock of Ages.”
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
