psalmody
noun
the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
psalmodist
-
a word derived from
psalmody.
Example Sentences
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In the preface to his poems he wrote: "Witness my early acquaintance with the pious strains of Sternhold and Hopkins, under that melodious psalmodist my honoured Father, and your approved Parish Clerk."
From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
But the time came when our young psalmodist of Zion was to be pulled out of his predetermined course and made to sing another song.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
Some women are supposed to possess the power of the angakok—a combination of the gifts of the fortune teller, the mental healer, and the psalmodist, one might say.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
The most that is now known of Edward Harwood, the composer of the anthem, is that he was an English musician and psalmodist, born near Blackburn, Lancaster Co.,
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
