psalmody
Americannoun
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the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
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psalms or hymns collectively.
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the act, practice, or art of singing psalms.
noun
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the act of singing psalms or hymns
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the art or practice of the setting to music or singing of psalms
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Origin of psalmody
1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin psalmōdia < Greek psalmōidía singing to the harp. See psalm, ode, -y 3
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And, amid the rustle of the opening leaves, the minister himself started the psalmody.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
He was not only himself a poet, but a restorer of the old psalmody and a patron of literature.
From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
"It is ordered that we remember it in special prayer and psalmody to the Lord, with thanksgiving on the anniversary of our landing; you heard that, Constantia?" her stepmother responded.
From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames
In the first congregations It allies itself to art, probably all the worshippers joined in the hymns and psalmody.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
The nasal psalmody, full of turns and trills and graceless graces, seemed the essential voice of the kirk itself upraised in thanksgiving.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis
After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
The psalmodies were performed in the true Yankee style of nasal-melody, and at proper and seasonable intervals the preachings were delivered.
From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)
He seemed to like to give to his thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of the other world.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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