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- noun Plural form of
psalmodist .
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Examples
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He remembered her of old a daring and entrancing vocalist, in the harmony one thread of gold among the hodden grey of those simple unstudied psalmodists.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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Thine angels, O Christ, that stand in fear before the throneof the majesty and with the outpouring of Thy light are ever illuminated, Thy heavenly psalmodists and ministers of Thy council who are sent down by Thee, -- they enlighten our souls.
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The intellectual by nature Thou hast, O Christ, made the psalmodists of Thy majesty incorruptible by Thy grace, having shaped Thine angels in the image,
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He Who in the burning furnace hath saved the youthful psalmodists, blessed is the God of our fathers.
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Yet dull enough you would find these Dutch of the Hudson, and worse yet the blue-nosed psalmodists of New England.
The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890
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Ingalls, one of the constellation of early Puritan psalmodists, to which Billings and Swan belonged, evidently loved the hymn, and composed his "New Jerusalem" to the verse, "From the third heaven," and his "Northfield" to "How long, dear Saviour."
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873
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And being removed by the hands of the bishops, and by those placing their shoulders under the bier, while other pontiffs were carrying lamps and wax tapers, and others led the choirs of psalmodists, she was laid in the middle of the church of the cave of the Saviour ....
Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861
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(mentioned by name), that unto thy psalmodists may be granted salvation and life and great mercy.
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When the loud and sonorous swell of the psalm-tune, multiplied by all the echoes of the cliffs and ruinous halls, came full upon their ear, as if to warn them how little they were to reckon upon the depression of their adversaries, at first it was answered with a scornful laugh, raised to as much height as the scoffers 'lungs would permit, in order that it might carry to the psalmodists the contempt of their auditors; but this was a forced exertion of party spleen.
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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