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 how could the unadorned design of the classical dance be better expressed than by the flow of melody as it expands in the sustained psalmody of strings?
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
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)
In a history of our vernacular literature, the introduction of a versified psalter and of psalm-singing forms an incident; as the passion for psalmody itself is a portion of the history of the Reformation.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
The doleful psalmody in the neighboring ground broke abruptly.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
They held their breath, and the psalmody of old Maud distinctly reached the ears of the surgeon and his followers.
From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston
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)
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
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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