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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"Oh no," replied the well-known corporal, Rob Douglas, "I will only join in the psalmody."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
Detailed prescriptions as to the order of the services and the psalmody accompanied the edict.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
His life is but a psalmody of pain.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
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 A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
In those days congregational psalmody was at a low ebb, and the small choirs that offered themselves fluctuated, and now and then vanished wholly.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
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
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
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
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