magnificat

• On his right hand kneels the Virgin Mother in adoration, her very face a magnificat--praise, lowliness, confidence; next to her, Joseph, telling by his looks the wonderful story, deeply but simply. —  The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
• No; they have escaped from some higher sphere, they are the outpourings of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound; they are echoes from our home; they are the voice of angels or the magnificat of Saints, or the living laws of Divine Governance, or the Divinic attributes; something are they besides themselves, which we cannot compass, which we cannot utter,--though mortal man, and he perhaps not otherwise distinguished above his fellows, has the gift of eliciting them Of quite another order is the Cardinal's description of a gentleman. —  The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson
• And the whole of her spirit rose in thankfulness to God, while her soul sang a glad magnificat. —  The Price of Things
• (short for magnificat). —  Complete Poetical Works
• The critic considered that the Latin was much in the style of the breviary; and, had it concluded with an _allelujah_, it would serve for an _anthem_ to the _magnificat_. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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