psalmody
Americannoun
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psalmodies
plural
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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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The paraphrases have, on the strength of their own merits, established a secure place in the psalmody of all the Presbyterian churches in Scotland.”
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
The Liszt pupils have had their say, and their pupils are beginning to intone the psalmody of uncritical praise.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
He open’d, as we went, his dreadful mouth, Fit for no sweeter psalmody; and shouted After us, in the words of some strange tongue, Ràfel ma-èe amech zabèe almee!—
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Meanwhile the meeting proceeded to its end amid the voice of prayer and the solemn throb of psalmody.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The outer rows were for the novices, and the backs of their stalls formed the desks used by the professed monks, whereon they rested the ponderous tomes containing the sacred psalmody.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
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 Isabel Florence Hapgood
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 Isabel Florence Hapgood
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 S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall
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